Quotes About Wisdom

The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.

is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Might

Aristotle famously said, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know

Tómate más tiempo y abarca menos terreno.» THOMAS MERTON

La perspectiva de leer a filósofos griegos de la antigüedad rodeado del paisaje pedregoso y soleado donde habían florecido sus ideas me pareció genial.

I hope there is no God" passage, Nagel wrote that "[I] am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers." I, too, know a great number of very bright and knowledgeable people who are believers. It sometimes makes me wonder if the skeptics have it backward: maybe I am just not wise enough to be a believer.

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

Opposition is a crucial part of growth and argument paves the way to wisdom.

God only allows his Divine Presence to rest on someone who is strong, wealthy, wise, and humble.

Don't be discouraged by negative thoughts that may arise unbidden in your mind. You may feel like you should not say or do things that do not feel true in your heart, but such thoughts are destructive and violate biblical secrets of ancient Jewish wisdom.

In the beginning of life, we're on fire and want to change the world. Yet as we get older, we realize how difficult that is, so we think that if we can have a positive influence on those around us, we'll have lived a worthwhile life. As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.

Now, some people will bemoan this fact, wag their fingers in your direction, and tell you sternly that you should live every minute of your life as though it were your last, which only goes to show that some people would spend their final ten minutes giving other people dumb advice. The

Because we tend to remember the best of times and the worst of times instead of the most likely of times, the wealth of experience that young people admire does not always pay clear dividends.

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.

In Brueghel's hands, Ovid's tale of a son's willful rejection of his father's wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.

Dans ses études, l´homme a pris la fâcheuse habitude de tout morceler, de se spécialiser, pour employer le terme consacré. Seule une vue globale et synthétique des phénomènes peut donner les clés de la véritable compréhension.

La compassion demeure une voie d´accès à la compréhension, une forme supérieure d´intelligence.

On commence par savoir, ensuite on comprend, enfin seulement vient la Connaissance.

Posso fazer só mais uma pergunta? — Faça. — Karu-Sakaibê e Rairu existem de verdade? Minha avó olhou de soslaio para minha mãe, que escutava, atenta, a nossa conversa. Depois, me chamou bem pertinho dela e, encostando sua boca em meu ouvido, sussurrou: — Para quem precisa deles, sim; para quem não precisa, não.