Quotes About Wisdom

Genuis hesitates

Everything is still confused, and there is a very great deal that remains to be understood.

La Natura si sta comportando con noi come quell'anziano rabbino da cui erano andati due uomini per dirimere una contesa. Ascoltato il primo, il rabbino dice: "Hai ragione". Il secondo insiste per essere ascoltato, il rabbino lo ascolta e gli dice: "Hai ragione anche tu". Allora la moglie del rabbino, che orecchiava da un'altra stanza, urla: "Ma non possono avere ragione entrambi!". Il rabbino ci pensa, annuisce, e conclude: "Anche tu hai ragione".

Albert Einstein gençli?inde bir y?l?n? aylakl?k ederek geçirdi. Bo?a zaman geçirmeden bir yere var?lmaz ama anne babalar? ne yaz?k ki bunu genellikle unutur. .. Albert, Kant okuyor, bo? zamanlar?nda Pavia Üniversitesi'nde derslere giriyordu; ne kay?t olmu?tu ne de s?navlara giriyordu, bunu zevk için yap?yordu. Gerçek biliminsan? ancak böyle olunur.

La capacidad de comprender antes de ver constituye el corazón del pensamiento científico.

Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains.

It was not the applications that motivated them but the natural desire to know.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

Our intuitions have developed on the basis of our limited experience.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known.

The only truly infinite thing is our ignorance.

It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings

If you want to truly advance the path of knowledge, you must not just revere your master, study, and build on his teachings. You must seek out his mistakes.

man is what we all know.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one which he has always known.

People were not peaches. Like guns and saddles, they were all the better for becoming slightly worn.

Critical reading returns you to your life with renewed eyes; it deepens the world for you, inasmuch as it deepens you for the world.

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.