Quotes About Wisdom

Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.

My grandmother warned that too much reading would ruin my eyesight, but I couldn't hear her over the chatter of characters.

Gnomic, "!chocH !choe echachoed dh zchoaK !chocH

Let thy good spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance, and without the sound of words speak all truth.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.

Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Who would set a limit to the mind? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

All truths are easy to understand once you find them, the point is to discover them

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

Philosophy is written in this all-encompassing book that is constantly open to our eyes, that is the universe; but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to understand the language and knows the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures; without these it is humanly impossible to understand a word of it, and one wanders in a dark labyrinth.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

La mayor sabiduría que existe es conocerse a uno mismo.

This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.