Quotes About Wisdom

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.' " Colleen's face scrunched up. "What Bible passage is that?" "It's not the Bible, it's Isaac Asimov.

If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Omnia mea mecum porto.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." — Cicero

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

It is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

In anger, nothing right nor judicious can be done.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift.