Quotes about Wisdom

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Be not foolish, O my soul, nor become deaf in the ear of thine heart with the tumult of thy folly. Hearken thou too. The Word itself calleth thee to return: and there is the place of rest imperturbable, where love is not forsaken, if itself forsaketh not.

God, whose knowledge is simply manifold, and uniform in its variety, comprehends all incomprehensibles with so incomprehensible a comprehension, that though He willed always to make His later works novel and unlike what went before them, He could not produce them without order and foresight, nor conceive them suddenly, but by His eternal foreknowledge.