Quotes About Wisdom

A Talmudic maxim instructs with respect to the Scripture: "Turn it over, and turn it over, for all is therein.

Just as no particular branch of knowledge is self-sufficing so all branches together are not self-sufficing without the queen of knowledge, philosophy, nor the whole of human knowledge without the wisdom springing from the divine science itself, theology.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

A book is a blossoming of hope.

Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.

Las escuelas filosóficas debatían básicamente dos cuestiones. En general, si el vino había sido otorgado a los humanos para enloquecerles o por su bien y, en particular, si –como afirmaban los estoicos– el sabio podía beber sin límite, hasta caer dormido, antes de verse llevado a alguna necedad

El que busca lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

El odio a la actitud científica caracteriza a ignorantes y resentidos.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

History teaches, but has no pupils.

Todo necio confunde valor y precio

Y un hombre vi que en la desnuda mano mostraba al mundo el ascua de la vida, sin cenizas - el fuego heraclitano. Esto soñé.

PROVERBIOS Y CANTARES XXVI Poned sobre los campos un carbonero, un sabio y un poeta. Veréis cómo el poeta admira y calla, el sabio mira y piensa... Seguramente, el carbonero busca las moras o las setas. LlevadIos al teatro y sólo el carbonero no bosteza. Quien prefiere lo vivo a lo pintado es el hombre que piensa, canta o sueña. El carbonero tiene llena de fantasías la cabeza.

Moneda que está en la mano quizá se deba guardar: la monedita del alma se pierde si no se da.

A heart is made mature by darkness and art.

because her sharp intelligence allowed her to understand the extent of what she hadn't learned.

You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.