Quotes About Wisdom

Life was so short, and books so countlessly many.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age.

Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses. And now, as all the world is in error, how shall I, though I know the true path, how shall I guide? If I know that I cannot succeed and yet try to force success, this would be but another source of error. Better then to desist and strive no more. But if I do not strive, who will? Chuang Tzu

Porque los detalles, como todos sabemos, conducen a la virtud y la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente males necesarios.

62,400 repetitions make one truth.

And to think, Will Farnaby commented, to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.

No podemos salir de nuestra irracionalidad fundamental por medio del razonamiento. Lo único que podemos hacer es aprender el arte de ser irracional en forma racional.

In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

VÄ›cí vlády je zasedat, nikoli mlátit. Vládne se hlavou a zadkem, nikoli pÄ›stí.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.

Knowledge is always a function of being.

Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you.

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.

which is better—to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.

Life is so constituted that we can make effective use of things whose nature we do not understand.