Quotes About Wisdom

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.