Quotes about Wisdom
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
- Seneca
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
- St Bonaventure
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
- Girolamo Savonarola
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
- Corrie Ten Boom
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
- Martin Luther
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
- Bede Griffiths
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
- Mark Twain
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- CS Lewis
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
- Deepak Chopra
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
- John Bunyan
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
- Cicero