Quotes About Wisdom

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.

lus mór na coille.

There has been too much destruction of knowledge simply because someone else disagrees with it. In a civilised world, there is room for all knowledge and the truth will eventually emerge triumphant over prejudice. If we do not believe that, then there is no hope for us. We might as well resort to living as wild animals.

Publilius Syrus say: amare et sapere vix deo conced-itur? Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.

Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.

The past is no Roman road, but more often a maze...

My bosses would tell you that I've often acted as a sounding board for them. With all three of my bosses, we've mentored each other, although the obvious balance of wisdom and expertise was theirs. I was always helpful to them in their decisions about customer problems.

Add to that the age-old principle of Ockham's razor in problem-solving: "If there are a number of possible solutions, the simplest one, based on the fewest assumptions, is most likely to be correct.

Poterunt discussis forte tenebris Ad puram priscumque iubar remeare nepotes Tunc Elicona noua reuitentem stripe iudebis Tunc lauros frondere sacras; tunc alta resurgent Ingenia atque animi dociles, quibus ardour honesti Pyeridum studii ueterem geminabit amorem.

You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley

Sometimes when you see too much, you miss a lot.

THE HUMAN BRAIN WERE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND IT, WE WOULD BE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULDN'T. —Emerson M. Pugh

In its own way, though, that nihilism itself can be comforting, and this is another place where I quibble. If it's all futile, we're excused from trying. And not trying is so much easier than trying-and-failing. It's soothing to have an excuse for hopelessness. And we do have a cultural bias toward believing that the most cynical response to any situation is the wisest and most knowledgable one.