Quotes About Wisdom

Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death -- unless he sucks eggs.

I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.

Devemos nos arrepender dos erros e aprender com eles, mas nunca carregá-los conosco para o futuro. - Sra. Allan

Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando, a senhora Morris disse para ela. — Tenho ouvido esse provérbio a minha vida inteira — disse Myra Murray —, e me pergunto se é verdade. Talvez os pássaros voando pudessem cantar, e aquele na mão, não.

You've learned the secret of happiness.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive.

My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: 'Take your time.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

Any serious philosophy can be described entirely through jokes.