Quotes About Wisdom

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Great intellects are skeptical.

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.

My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

My thoughts', said the wanderer to his shadow, 'should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.

So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.

The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus he might have asked himself – what is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent? Perhaps there is a realm of wisdom from which the logician is exiled? Perhaps art is even a necessary correlative of, and supplement for science?

It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a left. Truth can stand on one leg, to be sure; but with two it can walk and get about.

Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God.

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!