Quotes About Wisdom

under the tuition of the poets.

History is philosophy teaching from examples.

Phalius son of Eratocleides

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said I think I need a hair.

There is a difference between memorizing Scripture and thinking biblically.

The French satirist Molière once wrote, "A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one." Benjamin Franklin commented, "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

That is why 'learn from your mistakes' is wise advice that is painfully hard to take.

Selalu ada sesuatu yang dapat dipelajari dari orang lain

States should be humble. Bureaucrats must recognise the limits of their knowledge. There is always a risk that the bird's eye view is so grand and sweeping as to induce delusions of omnipotence.

Menjadi rasional tidaklah sama dengan menjadi sangat cerdas secara intelektual.

Those who think that the wisest way to groom a child for spiritual maturity is to isolate him from the evil, corrupted world system or airbrush his childhood environment so much that it exposes only him to the good and never teaches him how to process the bad (or the counterfeit) will set a child up for a life of mediocrity at best and spiritual annihilation at worst.

All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

Donald Trump was the snake. Everyone knew he was the snake. He told us he was the snake. Yet when the snake offered his spoiled fruit, these otherwise intelligent people took from the tree and ate it.

Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.

We find truth inside, or not at all.

At one point Mitchell Sanders looked at me and said, 'Hey, man, I just realized something.' 'What?' He wiped his eyes and spoke very quietly, as if awed by his own wisdom. 'Death sucks,' he said.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

No man can step into the same river twice, for the second time it's not the same river, and he's not the same man." —Heraclitus

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

knowledge is better than wonder

discretion will generally keep a fella safe.