Quotes about Wisdom

Live, love and learn

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

Second, as Luther stated, because God's love isn't caused by its object, it can love those who are not lovable, "sinners, evil persons, fools, and weaklings in order to make them righteous, good, wise, and strong". Luther concluded, "rather than seeking its own good, the love of God flows forth and bestows good".

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact with the great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their genius becomes ours. . . in The Great Conversation

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.

Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.