"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he does not know more."

William Cowper

"I won’t quarrel with Ralph Wood’s judgment that my book [The Naked Public Square] was intended as a corrective. Yet there was also a remedy proposed, and Wood says it has failed. I would prefer to say it has not been tried, but I admit that that may be something like failing."

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #147 (November 2004)

"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God) you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."

T.S. Eliot "The Idea of a Christian Society" quoted in Russell Kirk The Politics of Prudence 

"Just because I have a short attention span doesn’t mean I"

"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)

"Of course we are lone survivors, of course the past that is our lives is at the bottom of an abyss - if the abyss has any bottom; of course, too, there’s no use talking unless one particularly wants to. But... one can, strange to say, still want to - ... You see I still, in presence of life (or of what you deny to be such,) have reactions - as many as possible..."

Henry James in a letter to Henry Adams near end of both their lives, quoted in The New Republic October 16, 1989

"But even regarding History as the butcher's block at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History
 

"central to all economic analysis and instruction is the question of what determines the prices that are paid for goods and for services rendered."

John Kenneth Galbraith Economics in Perspective
Galbraith EIP

"Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together."

John A. Morrison, quoted as an "Apercus du jour” in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 20, 2008