Quotes About Wisdom

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

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

FEW LEADERS ARE MEN FOR ALL SEASONS. THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINE an effective leader in one circumstance may be useless or even mischievous in another.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.

epistemological

If you've helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven't, I don't want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went down.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).

What if' is fo' chirrens, Easy. You's a man.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' 'less somebody else can understand.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

You don't have to be smart to be tough-minded. As a matter of fact, the combination of stupidity and silence might be the greatest weapon in the history of our species.

I seen it all," old Coydog used to say, "but that don't mean I seen everything.

Few people know how much you have to know in order to know how little you know.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.