Quotes About Wisdom

our world has a growing need for people trained in profound degrees of doubt, more so than for people skilled at handling certainties.

Remember Luigi, Toaster Toast Toast. - Mario Hotel Remember Luigi, Where There Fire, There's Burnt Toast. - Mario Hotel Greetings Young Traveller, I See That You Have Wandered Into My Store. Would You Like To Partake In One Of My Goods Or Services, I Sell Clothes, Rope, Bombs, You Want It I Got It, As Long As You Have Enough Rupees. Oh, I See You Don't Have Enough Ruppees, Come Back When You're A Bit, Umm, Riche. - The Legend Of Zelda

First time, shame on you," she began, her husky tone serious. "Second time, shame on me.

Free is a man who has no desires.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

she learned about Archimedes' claim that, given a long enough lever, he could move the planet.

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away. Life would be pretty boring if we understood everything so better that we don't understand everything

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esenciales.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years old.