“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 66
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“We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”
“It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos.”
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”
“In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.”
“There is no truth without the form of truth, namely justice.”
“Don't give in too quickly to those who want to alleviate your anxiety about truth.”
“To be wise and eke to love, / Is graunted scarce to God above.”
“So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches.”
“All, that in this world is great or gay, / Doth as a vapour vanish, and decay.”
“I learned have, not to despise, / What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”
“Fondnesse it were for any being free, / To covet fetters, though they golden bee.”
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold / The righteous man, to make him daily fall!”
“The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.”
“The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
“If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?”
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”