Quotes About Wisdom

Le paradis, à n'en pas douter, n'est qu'une immense bibliothèque.

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

Avouer qu'on s'était trompé, c'est rendre le plus éclatant hommage à la perspicacité de son esprit.

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

Most humans subscribe to the policy of 'an eye for an eye, a life for a life'. Many of your religions are famous for this formula, which is well known throughout the UNIVERSE for its stupidity. Your christ and your buddah had a different vision, but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the christians and buddhists.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened? Exactly. No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration? You never went to college, did you?

Between you and me, Plato was a hack. All that crap about higher forms and caves? He was drunk when he wrote it. I know. I was there.

Wait. So what am I supposed to do now? You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey. (222-223)

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.

So you know that the RIGHT kind of love ... the kind that's REAL, that SACRIFICES ... that kind of love doesn't BLIND you. It actually helps you SEE.

Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed.

Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.

It had become the face of a scholar of the worst kind, of the sort of man who has studied many things hidden from common men and grown wise and corrupt. He

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

There are encounters that change nothing. Urth turns her aged face to the sun and he beams upon her snows; they scintillate and coruscate until each little point of ice hanging from the swelling sides of the towers seems the Claw of the Conciliator, the most precious of gems. Then everyone except the wisest believes that the snow must melt and give way to a protracted summer beyond summer.

Every woman is her true age when she sleeps.