Quotes About Wisdom

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Philosophy can make people sick.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.