Quotes About Wisdom

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and time undertake the charge of elaborating constitutions when we are wise enough to allow these two factors to act

The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance.

Khi con ng??i n?m trong ?ám ?ông, k? ngu d?t và nhà bác h?c ??u không có kh? n?ng nh?n xét.

V?i m?t kho nh? nh?ng công th?c và nh?ng ?i?u sáo mòn h?c ???c khi còn tr?, chúng ta s? h?u ???c t?t c? ?i?u c?n có ?? ?i su?t cu?c ??i mà không c?n thi?t ph?i nh?c nh?n suy ngh? v? b?t c? chuy?n gì.

Experience has not taught them as yet to a sufficient degree that men never shape their conduct upon the teaching of pure reason.

Jede Folgerung, die wir aus unseren Beobachtungen ziehen, ist meistens voreilig: Denn hinter den wahrgenommenen Erscheinungen gibt es solche, die wir undeutlich sehen, und hinter diesen wahrscheinlich noch andere, die wir überhaupt nicht erkennen.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'' —Job xxxiii., 15.

Hebben de goden ons geen verstand gegeven om mee te denken en te oordelen?

Hindsight is an exact science.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

We rise, we fall. We may rise by falling. Defeat shapes us. Our only wisdom is tragic, known to late, and only to the lost.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and having no flame with which to ignite it.

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.