I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
—Thomas Aquinas
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
—John Milton
When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
—Laozi
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
—Voltaire
All has gone to rest, and I don’t know whether I’m alive or will live or whether I’m rushing like this through the world for I’m not longer weeping or laughing.
—Taras Shevchenko
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
—Voltaire
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
—Franz Kafka
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
The more you know, the less you understand.
—Laozi
It’s good to accustom yourself to doing good deeds that no one will ever know about.
—Leo Tolstoy
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
—Ernest Hemingway
Oh then pray, pray, be earnest, press forward and follow on to know the Lord.
—William Wilberforce
May he enlighten me more and more, to know and feel the mystery of his electing, soul-transforming love.
—George Whitefield
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
—Voltaire
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
I pray daily, that I may know his will more perfectly, not only that I may do it myself, but that I may teach it to others.
—George Whitefield
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
—Marcus Aurelius
If you’re afraid of something, know that the cause of your fear is not outside you but within you.
—Leo Tolstoy
I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
—Sun Tzu
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
—Voltaire
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy