Quotes About Wisdom

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

Man sollte alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluß: nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, der täglich sie erobern muß.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe