Quotes on Empty Heads

Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.