Quotes About Wisdom

pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, who's coolest? Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the day who do you want- the person who can figure things out that they've never seen before or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts?

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong

There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

No doubt about it, we're smarter than every other living creature that ever ran, crawled, or slithered on Earth. But how smart is that?

the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject, to know you're wrong.

The universe is knowable...

Intelligence and longevity do not seem to be correlated.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe. What

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.