Quotes About Wisdom

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

Make thought a whirlwind.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Never cry for the same reason twice.

To enhance and expand your vision, get an education.