wisdom

"In the upper, rich, more educated classes of European society doubt arose as to the truth of that understanding of life which was expressed by Church Christianity. When, after the Crusades and the max…"

"All human relationships are based on misunderstandings."

"I asked the ruling government in the Parliament whether they had the numbers or data to prove that there was pervasive persecution of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Sikhs, and Christians. Amit Shah…"

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration."

"The dichotomies which are the signature of their work – the esoteric and the exoteric, the civil and the managerial, the friend and the foe, the lawful and the legislative – are so many cordons. Their…"

"Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head."

"When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of war - and in this particular case of the intrigues, the persecutions, the lies and the misunderstandings - there is always the temptation to sa…"

"Above the building, the sky recalled passages from Les Miserables, threadbare and gray."

"My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches."

"Where Adam Smith and David Ricardo had envisaged a growing worldwide division of labor, they had thought that each country would freely select the commodities it was most qualified to produce, and tha…"

"Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer."

"Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion—our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge."

"Counsel: loitering to commit a felony. Now then Mr Golightly..."

"Europe has sent a clear and firm message to the world that ambitious climate action is needed now"

"Transcript of Special Counsel Fitzgerald's Press Conference," Washington Post, October 28, 2005, accessed July 15, 2006"

"With the ever-growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play by reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us va…"

"As the origin and basis of all religions, it cannot be the antagonist of any: it is indeed their purifier, revealing the valuable inner meaning of much that has become mischievous in its external pres…"

"No one, of a surety, wanders farther from the mark than he who fancies to himself that he already understands this marvellous Kingdom, and can, in few words, fathom its constitution, and everywhere fi…"

"What do you think of Spinoza? For me he is the ideal example of the cosmic man. He worked as an obscure diamond cutter, disdaining fame and a place at the table of the great. He tells us the importanc…"

"Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything,…"