Quotes About Wisdom

with fame I become more, and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Cel mai de neînÈ›eles lucru în privinÈ›a universului este c? poate fi înÈ›eles.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein | Nature Quotes

Our brains read things, just like the happy squirrel sitting on a pond.

insight will help you very little.

Insight is another name for awareness.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.

El ignorante ataca con la boca. El sabio se defiende con el silencio.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.

And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they will know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellow-men.