Quotes About Wisdom

Quizá la tarea del que ama a los hombres consista en lograr que éstos se rían de la verdad, lograr que la verdad ría, porque la única verdad consiste en aprender a liberarnos de la insana pasión por la verdad.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must do or can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

El secreto de mi éxito es que de joven descubrí que no era Dios».

Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you that anyone who attempts to study, according to the ordinary and literal sense of their words, what the Hermetic Philosophers write, will soon find himself in the twists of a labyrinth from which he will be unable to escape, having no Ariadne's thread to lead him out. —Artephius

Es muy importante entender que no se es Dios, dudar siempre de los propios actos, y considerar que no se han empleado bastante bien los años vividos. Es la única forma para intentar emplear mejor los que quedan.

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth...!

master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence. For that matter, he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints.

Which?" I asked. "Aha, our novice wants to know too much. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words, lying with herbs.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Estoy persuadido de que el mundo es un enigma benigno, que nuestra locura vuelve terrible porque pretende interpretarlo con arreglo a su propia verdad.

The life of the simple, Abo, is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of distinctions that makes us wise. And it is haunted by illness and poverty, tongue-tied by ignorance.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.

Tudo, até o irrelevante, pode ser útil um dia.

Cu cât îmb?trânesc, cu atât m? las mai mult în voia lui Dumnezeu, ÅŸi preÅ£uiesc tot mai puÅ£in inteligenÅ£a care vrea s? ÅŸtie ÅŸi voinÅ£a care vrea s? fac?; ÅŸi recunosc ca singur? cale spre mântuire credinÅ£a, care ÅŸtie s? aÅŸtepte cu r?bdare, f?r? s? întrebe prea mult.

At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitter stem. In reading Albert, couldn't I learn what Thomas might have said? Or in reading Thomas, know what Averroës said?

Si Dieu existait, il serait une bibliothèque.

Tudo é veneno, se tomado em doses exageradas, até o vinho.

Qué hermoso era el espectáculo de la naturaleza aún no tocada por el saber, a menudo perverso, del hombre! Vi

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Les perdants, comme les autodidactes, ont toujours des connaissances plus vastes que les gagnants, pour gagner il faut savoir une seule chose et ne pas perdre son temps à les connaître toutes. Le plaisir de l'érudition est réservé aux perdants.

Telle est la force du vrai qui, comme le bien, se diffuse de soi-même.

Querido Adso, no conviene multiplicar las explicaciones y las causas mientras no haya estricta necesidad de hacerlo.

Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui (????? ??????, ? ??? ????????? ?????, ?? ?? ????????).

I won, but I might also have lost. The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose.