Quotes About Wisdom

Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Study of light hitting a head.

The Autobiography of a Yogi, the guide to meditation and spirituality

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

For Leonardo, this talent may have been connected to growing up with a love of nature while not being overly schooled in received wisdom.

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

Debo dejar los asuntos molestos en manos de personas objetivas.

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he

El valor de una educación universitaria no es el aprendizaje de muchos datos, sino el entrenamiento de la mente para pensar

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane.

As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55 One

So as he grew old, he was not only respected and revered by his colleagues, he was loved.

Una fe insensata en la autoridad es el peor enemigo de la verdad.

Detrás de las cosas tenía que haber algo profundamente oculto.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.