“…and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.”

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American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teach… 1949

David Zindell book Neverness

Neverness (1988)

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“If you want to live a purpose filled life, what better goal to guide your career is there than saving the planet?”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

“You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Police Shootings
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)

“Human beings — they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?”

Yukio Mishima Ken

"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.”

Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 164

“Every human being longs to be happy, to satisfy the wants of the body with food, with roof and raiment, and to feed the hunger of the mind, according to his capacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art and song.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

How To Reform Mankind (1896). http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/how_to_reform_mankind.html Republished by Kessinger Publishing, Llc, 2005. http://books.google.de/books/about/How_to_Reform_Mankind.html?id=u-IpAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

“…and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.”

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