Quotes About Wisdom

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Mio caro, in questa banale faccenda ho nuovamente verificato che a questo mondo l'incomprensione e la pigrizia causano più errori dell'astuzia e della malvagità. O perlomeno, queste ultime sono di certo più rare.

Ah, o que eu sei, toda a gente o pode saber! Mas o meu coração só a mim pertence…

U bezit zoveel verstand, zoveel kennis, zoveel talenten waar u plezier aan kunt beleven! Verman u toch! Geef het toch op, die treurige verknochtheid aan iemand die u er alleen maar om kan beklagen.

There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

Experience is only half of experience

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Am I a god? I see so clearly!

Wisdom is found only in truth.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.