Quotes About Wisdom

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ALBERT EINSTEIN

John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

hijo de gato caza ratones...siempre y cuando sepa que es hijo de gato.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

Tip began to nod, then shook his head. "I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?

Unfortunately, dogmatic, unchanging rules are drunken elephants in the house of crystal that is life.

nothing good will ever come from people who are more familiar with the dust of the library than with the light of the sun.

Age eventually catches up and forces a person to reckon with what is important in life and what counts as achievement.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

Speech is oft repented, silence never

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.