Quotes About Wisdom

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

action in an absence of information is wasted effort

When it comes to predicting future conflicts, what kind of fights they will be, and what will be needed, we need a lot more humility.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

the trees were ancient and old,

Einstein appealed to humanity's higher instincts, asking the world to ignore its petty differences and quarrels in quest of wisdom and happiness instead. "If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise," he predicted. "If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.

I don't see how people go on living as stupid as some of them are.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime.

Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.

Story is metaphor for life.

A rule says, "You must do it this way." A principle says, "This works … and has through all remembered time.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.