Quotes About Wisdom

Love is like a lot of things, it is always best done with the head. Save mindless efforts for mindless things.

Come you near or go you far, light from candle or flick'ring star? See what you will, or so you think, but is water sweet before you drink? Who can know of truth and lies? When can a man believe his eyes? Suspect what's known to mortal senses, for our nature vaults all mystic fences, that stand between that which is and seems, and back we are to truth ... or dreams.

You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.

There is no magic, only tricks.

As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.

My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.

Znati svoje želje, i spoznati tren njihovog ostvarenja, znaci su velike mudrosti.

Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved

a lot of what makes one man a ruler and another not is simply a willingness to be wrong.

I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

Lady, you have answered well and wisely. Love by itself is the healer, not honor, not need, not duty. For love alone will my god Hantukama answer summons, and lend your warrior the strength to live.

for to change anything in your past would risk turning you into less than you are now.

time is coming, soon, when I will tell you things you will wish I had never told you.

The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?' 'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

Last words and last thoughts are not invariably those most replete with human wisdom. If this seems to be the case, it is because unmemorable ones are not remembered.

When you're young,' Harry said, 'you just see things. There's nothing much to say about them. You don't realize then all the life that's gone into it.

If you must fall in love, Calis, fall in love with someone who will live a long time.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

And the freest of all is the philosopher who thinks so little of the ceaseless flow of time as to step out of it. This is why the philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger that we will become the tool of our tools, Plato said, which I thought was a very astute observation, especially considering how little it turned out that he actually knew about Google or really anything about the Internet. I

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. (Oddly, philosophy departments have forgone turning this into an enrollment-boosting slogan.)

Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.