Quotes About Wisdom

It's clear.

A combination of many stupidities can end up being a worthy man if he learns from his stupidities.

The good Lord has been wonderful to our republic. He has given us the wisdom to fight wars with no thought of personal gain. But this time we cannot pack up and go home. We have come of age. We have inherited both the power and the responsibility of the world without seeking or wishing it.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or "Wise, Wise Man.

As Steve Jobs said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

The branch of philosophy that studies knowledge is epistemology.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

The hunger and hunt for identity is a driving force of the modern world. But the nature of the self in an age of simulacra, pseudonyms, avatars, gender/racial fluidity, "the wisdom of crowds," and online friends makes having an identity a massive maze of conquest and confusion.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

He who thinks little errs much…

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.