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David Brooks

AUTHOR PROFILE

David Brooks

David Brooks is described in biographical records as an American army officer and politician (1756-1838). The selections gathered here touch on humility, knowledge, wisdom. This profile brings the attributed quotations together with their available source information.

FEATURED QUOTE
“Humility is the awareness that there’s a lot you don’t know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong.”
— David Brooks

Biography at a glance

  • Profile: American army officer and politician (1756-1838)
  • Quotes in this collection: 9

Life and work

The available biographical record identifies David Brooks through the role above. This collection includes 9 quotations credited to David Brooks. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.

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The selections gathered here touch on humility, knowledge, wisdom. These topic links make it easier to compare these words with other voices in the LDS Flow library. Citations are shown on the individual quotation pages where the source collection provided them.

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Quotes by David Brooks

9 quotes

“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.”

The Road to Character

— David Brooks

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