Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (. . . ) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The. PowerBook.
The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said. "
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.