Quotes About Wisdom

Der Verständige findet fast alles lächerlich, der Vernünftige fast nichts.

Entrando nella vita ci si lusinga, ma la vita non ci lusinga.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth

Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren Sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib im Dunkeln, unerfahren, Mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

The most important thing to remember is that all fact is already theory.

All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, musst du vernünftig fragen.

Das Wahre, mit dem Göttlichen identisch, läßt sich niemals von uns direkt erkennen, wir schauen es nur im Abglanz, im Beispiel, Symbol, in einzelnen und verwandten Erscheinungen; wir werden es gewahr als unbegreifliches Leben und können dem Wunsch nicht entsagen, es dennoch zu begreifen.

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, Und bin so klug als wie zuvor! Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar, Und ziehe schon an die zehen Jahr' Herauf, herab und quer und krumm Meine Schüler an der Nase herum - Und sehe, daß wir nichts wissen können!

Anthony to James about Jeremy : "Need I remind you this is a seventeen-year-old boy we're talking about?" "Need I remind you what you were like when you were seventeen?" James countered.

God knows why I should be that foolish

Stupid people always ignored good advice

My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me once, about big hearts and small hearts, and that not everyone could be blessed with a big one that had room to care for a lot of people. She promised me that mine was big, and that I was the lucky one for it.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

When the storm rages and the shipwreck of the state threatens, we can do nothing more worthy than to sink the anchor of our peaceful studies into the ground of eternity.

I especially love analogies, my most faithful masters, acquainted with all the secrets of nature… One should make great use of them.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.

wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life." Among other things, it reminds us to be humble, especially when we are sure we are right.