Quotes About Wisdom

He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Los je ucenik onaj, koji je ne nadmasi svog ucitelja.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.

There is nothing in all nature without its reason, he wrote. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude." "Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Quelli che s'innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev'essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.

Although attempting to bridge the gulf which separated the real from the unreal, he refused to treat the latter supernaturally. That mystery which lesser minds found in the occult, he saw in nature all about him. He denied the existence of spirits, just as he urged the foolishness of the will-o'-the-wisps of former ages,—alchemy and the black art.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. And if thou understandest that old age is fed with wisdom, so conduct thyself in the days of thy youth that sustenance may not be lacking to thy old age.