Quotes About Wisdom

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.

La teoria è quando si sa tutto e niente funziona. La pratica è quando tutto funziona e nessuno sa il perché. Noi abbiamo messo insieme la teoria e la pratica: non c'è niente che funzioni... e nessuno sa il perché!

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.

Per perdere la testa, bisogna averne una...

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.

Belajarlah dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak berhenti bertanya.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

If God created the world, his primary concern was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber beim Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher.

He who finds the heart that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only thing you have to absolutely know is the location of the library.

The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.