Quotes About Wisdom

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.