Quotes About Wisdom

Only the good die dumb.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia, predicts the weather from the flight of birds: Today it will rain toads, she says, squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles as she reads the sky - tomorrow, it will be snakes.

Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?

I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

Especially since my mother says Grandma is too much of an influence on me.

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Love's a hard game to play, my darlings. Play it well.

It's very foolish to laugh if you don't know what's funny in the first place.

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

unified understanding is not a theoretical grasp cut off from practice, but may itself involve a practical ability to apply the understanding in question.)

Socrates never raises the question whether there is such a thing as wisdom or expertise.

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter.

What would show that a person has wisdom and understanding comes to be referred to as 'giving an account', logon didonai. Logos is the ordinary Greek word for reason; what you say about the topic you are supposed to understand must give reasons in a way that explains the matter. Socrates' victims can produce plenty of words, but they fail to give a reasoned account of their subjects, and so are shown not to understand what they are talking about.

It seems worthwhile, then, to begin with virtue, rather than with a type of ethical theory, and to see what kind of account can be produced.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

He looks out on a raging battlefield and sees error everywhere, and he thinks he can find the truth by avoiding error. —Lerone Bennett, "Tea and Sympathy: Liberals and Other White Hopes," 1964

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