Quotes About Wisdom

simplicity without oversimplification.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

An open mind is not an empty one.

Judgment hinders imagination.

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

Crime is common but logic is rare,

For what are the Aegyption Hierogliphicks, and the whole History of the Pagan Gods; the Hints, and Fictions of the Wise Men of Old, but in Effect, a kind of Philosophical Mythology ; Which is, in truth, no other, then a more Agreeable Vehicle found out for Conveying to us the Truth and Reason of Things, though the medium of Images and Shadows.

Gurdjieff put considerable emphasis on what he called the "instinctive sensing of reality," weak in many of us but not irretrievably so.

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

As Keyes noted, one bet soundly considered is preferable to many poorly understood.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.…We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

La vida seria imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto esta en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

Roger Silverwood

Roger Silverwood

Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden, voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis, randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung. So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten.

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Estos temas ya estaban sobre la mesa en la Antigüedad griega y romana. La conversión hacia la filosofía no supone cambiar nuestros ojos por otros, sino cambiar la dirección de la mirada. Por naturaleza tendríamos en nuestra mente la capacidad de acceder a la verdad. Si nos extraviamos es porque no estamos buscando del lado correcto, es porque estamos mirando hacia otro punto. No se trata de introducir la verdad en el alma sino de volver el alma hacia la verdad.