Quotes About Wisdom

Education is life itself.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.

We cannot expect to gain true knowledge without acting upon our ideas.

Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert the obvious and immediate facts of gross experience, unmindful that thereby philosophy itself commits suicide.

Education is not preparation for life; it is life itself.

But the live creature adopts its past; it can make friends with even its stupidities, using them as warnings that increase present wariness. Instead of trying to live upon whatever may have been achieved in the past, it uses past successes to inform the present. Every living experience owes its richness to what Santayana well calls "hushed reverberations.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

We've all met one or two women, I daresay, it would have been better if we hadn't met." "Now there," observed Cullingford Abbot, "we have a short history of mankind expressed with admirable terseness.

knowledge alone is not powerful even when the dots are interconnected, but humility can take you far away

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, If she would not deny? Then as th' earth's inward narrow crooked lanes Do purge sea water's fretful salt away, I thought, if I could draw my pains Through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay. Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For he tames it, that fetters it in verse.