Skip to content

Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."

— Luke the Evangelist

Another quote →

Topics

Intelligence

More quotes by Luke the Evangelist

What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

All Luke the Evangelist quotes →

You may also like

Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Socrates

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Luke the Evangelist (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.