Top 100 Human Wisdom Quotes
#1. 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.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#3. 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.
Mark Van Doren
#4. All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. [Government's] great contribution to human wisdom ... is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
H.L. Mencken
#6. Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
Rene Descartes
#7. 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.
Watchman Nee
#8. Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)
Alexandre Dumas
#9. The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Daniel Defoe
#10. all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' - Your
Alexandre Dumas
#11. Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
Joseph Story
#12. Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
Watchman Nee
#14. The knowledge that life is worthless is the flower of all human wisdom.
Thomas Ligotti
#15. God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
William Cowper
#16. wisdom, when it comes to sin, is that human wisdom wants to cover it up. Adam
Edwin Louis Cole
#17. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel Johnson
#18. All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Martin Luther
#19. Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You
Robert A. Heinlein
#20. Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. ...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
Socrates
#23. No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.
Thomas C. Oden
#24. 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.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#25. Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
Paulo Coelho
#26. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
#27. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley
#28. The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Ezra Pound
#29. Human wisdom tells us to get as much as we can, believe only what we can see, enjoy pleasure, and avoid pain. God's wisdom tells us to give all we can, believe what we can't see, enjoy service, and expect persecution. See that your life reflects the difference.
Anonymous
#30. It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#31. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#32. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes
Alexandre Dumas
#33. We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.
Paul Washer
#34. Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man ... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all.
SPURGEON C H
#36. Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].
Plato
#37. So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Alexandre Dumas
#38. People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#39. Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
#40. 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
#41. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#42. It was a mystery ... whether the solemn, silent man possessed more than human wisdom and stillness of spirit, or whether his mental powers had deserted him.
Hermann Hesse
#43. There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
#44. The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
Oswald Chambers
#45. A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Robert A. Heinlein
#46. Human wisdom won't win us these battles. It will be God alone,
Tessa Afshar
#47. It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#48. Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne
#49. [Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.
Tariq Ramadan
#50. No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus' sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.
Oswald Chambers
#51. Power in any Form ... when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
John Adams
#52. Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
#53. 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.
Thomas Paine
#54. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Samuel Johnson
#55. The problem is that spiritual answers cannot be deduced by human reason alone (1 Cor. 2:14). It's not that spiritual truth is irrational or illogical, but that human wisdom is defective, because it's tainted by man's sinfulness, and unable to perceive the things of God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#56. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
Dalai Lama
#57. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.
AVA.
#58. Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.
A.D. Aliwat
#59. Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.
Salman Rushdie
#60. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.
Sergio De La Pava
#61. The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
Fethullah Gulen
#63. One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
#64. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#65. No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.
Rivera Sun
#66. The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.
Paulo Coelho
#67. Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
Abhijit Naskar
#68. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.
C. JoyBell C.
#69. The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.
Bankei Yotaku
#70. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.
Tony Robbins
#71. God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#72. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
Joss Whedon
#73. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
Bliss Perry
#74. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Idries Shah
#75. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#76. Virtue inside is the real value of human, if ldp cannot rule this country, of course our country not yet be cured. All LDP (League for Democracy Party) supporters must be clear this point.
Khem Veasna
#77. The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel.
Nirmala Srivastava
#79. The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
Maimonides
#80. We find the meanings of life when we dedicate ourselves to alleviate human sufferings.
Debasish Mridha
#81. The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
Stanley Crouch
#82. Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.
Paul Brodeur
#83. As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it.
Debasish Mridha
#84. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley
#85. And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.
Nirmala Srivastava
#86. You come to this universe as a baby but life turns you into a human being.
Debasish Mridha
#87. The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.
Kofi Annan
#88. A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
Rumi
#89. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.
Amit Kalantri
#90. Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning ... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.
Chidi Okonkwo
#91. Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.
L. Ron Hubbard
#92. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
#93. The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
#94. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.
John O'Donohue
#95. To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis
#96. A wise human life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.
Sameh Elsayed
#97. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#98. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
#99. This piece of groping wisdom impresses me still. A sensible prayer people could offer up from time to time, it seems to me, might go something like this: "Dear Lord - never put me in the charge of a frightened human being." Kenneth
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
