Quotes About Wisdom

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.

Nada há de mais sábio do que apostar na loucura dos homens.

a inteligência não protege de nada, nem sequer da estupidez.

Se você é jovem, inteligente e se interessa por política, pense bem antes de estudar ciências políticas na universidade. Você deveria se interessar, em vez disso, em estudar matemática ou física. Num segundo momento você poderá entrar na política e terá conhecimentos mais úteis, com aplicações infinitas [...] Pode-se sempre ler livros de história mais tarde, mas não é possível aprender matemática na hora que se quer.

Era anche troppo facile pensare che fosse quella l'arma che aveva ucciso monna Vana, troppo facile. Ma d'altra parte non erano i maestri di Francia, i filosofi che tenevano lezione nel vicolo degli Strami a Parigi, a insegnarci che la causa semplice è regina sulla causa complessa? E che la Natura, oltre che del vuoto, ha parimenti orrore dell'inutile complessità?

Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep

Good council has no price.

He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.

There was some nobility in being poor, but absolutely none in being poor because you were an idiot.

You know what the hardest thing is?" Phoebe said, as the first pair of fireworks went up. "The hardest thing is to know everything you know so far and still have faith.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.

En alguna ocasión alguien dijo que la ignorancia no consistía en no saber nada, sino en saber demasiadas cosas que no son verdad.

Los hombres a veces se estrellan con la verdad, pero la mayoría se recomponen y retiran apresuradamente como si nada hubiera pasado».

Supón que a más niños se les introduzca en el gran almacén del conocimiento acumulado por el hombre cuatro o cinco años antes de lo que se hace ahora. Imagina el resultado si Einstein pudiera haber tenido cinco años más de vida creativa. Imagina lo que podría ocurrir si los niños pudieran empezar a asimilar la sabiduría y el conocimiento del mundo años antes de lo que se les permite ahora.

This solitude that you can acquire and should cultivate, this opportunity for contemplation of which you should take advantage, will be useful to you only insofar as you can substitute for those questions posed by the student for the teacher, questions posed by yourself for yourself. - Advice to a Graduation

We shouldn't have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity be refraining from controversial or provocative dissent. We shouldn't want a society where the message is conveyed that you will be left alone only if you mimic the accommodating behavior and conventional wisdom of an establishment columnist.

the face of God can be seen from a thousand different angles?

But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her.

Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.

1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).