Quotes About Wisdom

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Nature loves to hide.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.