Quotes about Wisdom

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. Maybe we can't handle the truth. In

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

While God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.