 Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. Author: J.I. Packer |
| A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; holy prayers and spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. Author: Jeremy Taylor |
| The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. Author: Jeremy Taylor |
| No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. Author: John Selden |
| Wise people say nothing in dangerous times. Author: John Selden |
| If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. Author: Martin Luther |
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| If thou art wise thou knowest thine own ignorance; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself. Author: Martin Luther |
| Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lucius Caelius Lactantius Author: Assorted Authors |
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Lucius Caelius Lactantius Author: Assorted Authors |
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
- Ralph Cudworth Author: Assorted Authors |
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
- Ralph Cudworth Author: Assorted Authors |
