Quotes About Wisdom

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.

The wisest man has something yet to learn.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Life is an art not to be learned by observation.

O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy

faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

Mein Leben durchgestürmt; erst gross und mächtig, Nun aber geht es weise, geht bedächtig.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

but a wise man never closes all the options.

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.

I've learned that when you get to be a certain age, you can get away with saying a lot of things, some of which wouldn't even be remotely funny if someone forty years younger said them. The Golden Girls ran for years off the same theory and basically used the same four jokes for seven marvelous seasons.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

I reads every chance I can gets.