Quotes about Wisdom
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
- Paulo Coelho
If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
- Henry B. Eyring
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
- Joseph Addison
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
- Euripides
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.
- William Paul Young
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
- Henry David Thoreau
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
- Marcus Aurelius
A youth is to be regarded with respect.
- Confucius