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  • The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

    Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp (2006). “Relationships: A Mess Worth Making”, p.7, David C Cook
  • Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
    Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
  • Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.

  • Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

  • All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

  • Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

    "The Works of John Owen".
  • The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

  • There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

    Wisdom   Two   Different  
  • The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

    Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey Perloff (1990). “Elektra”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
  • The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

    Wisdom   Law   Acting  
    Quoted in Heather Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of ...Johnson (1786)
  • Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.

    Dream   Prayer   Mean  
    Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press
  • There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

    Hope   Children   Grief  
    Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.1463, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

  • Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

    Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”
  • History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  • Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

    Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.368
  • All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

    Grief   Worry   Rewards  
  • Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

  • There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

    Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.7307, e-artnow
  • We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

    Teacher   Pain   Views  
  • War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

    Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)
  • Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

    "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.
  • International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

  • Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

  • It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

    Library   Cases   Humans  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 37, 1799.
  • We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.

    Wisdom   Men   Judging  
  • Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

    Valentine   Two   Waiting  
    Alexandre Dumas (2008). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.1083, OUP Oxford
  • Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

    "Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story".
  • It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.

    Perfect   Flesh   Causes  
    Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.197, Christian Fellowship Publishers
  • A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

    Wise   Wisdom   Ignorance  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby
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