Quotes About Wisdom

It is not easy to become an educated person.

The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might be applicable, and the artificial divisions seem to vanish.

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.

Childishness is a common enough sin amongst humans. Perhaps we should not be so quick to judge.

the truth was far more complex, and ultimately far more scary. But who in this universe wants the truth?

And he remembered then where he was, remembered how he'd come to be there, the years it had taken, and last of all he remembered he was old.

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. CLAUDE BERNARD

We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that makes our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. SOPHY BURNHAM

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.   KABIR

Pages tutor us in courage.

On the other side of the tree, a Storyteller sits also resting against the tree trunk. Take a sheet of paper and number from one to five. Tell the Storyteller five things you'd like to hear stories about.

Mi abuela se marchó antes de que yo aprendiera la lección que enseñaban sus cartas: la supervivencia radica en la cordura, y ésta se encuentra en prestar atención.

Well, all I know is this—nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.

The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.

had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary

Sometimes I have this feeling," Walter said, "that he operates on the philosophy that 'what Walter doesn't know won't hurt him.

Everything has its way of speaking and telling things worth knowing. Even the little grass-blades have their way of saying things as plain as words when human lips let them fall...the choice bits of wisdom...were never written down in any books.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.