Henry Cloud Quotes

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.