Quotes About Wisdom

In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle's philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go awry, and do so all too often. As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life's vicissitudes bring.

enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.

The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certainty - than thinking so with your rational mind.

And wisdom to know the difference.

como dicen los japoneses: «Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».

Os riscos inteligentes baseiam-se numa alargada e voraz recolha de dados confrontados com um sentido intuitivo; as decisões estúpidas são construídas de uma base demasiado restrita de dados. A reação franca daqueles em quem confiamos e respeitamos cria uma fonte de consciência própria que nos protege de dados de informação enviesados, ou de pontos de partida questionáveis.

Para que Servem as Emoções? É com o coração que se vê corretamente; o essencial é invisível aos olhos. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe

As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

las emociones descontroladas pueden convertir en estúpida a la gente más inteligente.

A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it.

the wall is there to teach us.

change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know I was stupid- the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Not like we were going to be forever. I mean, who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.

No soy una enamorada, soy una tonta

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.

Relax, she said. You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away. When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.

There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

But illusions die hard, and the brighter they are the longer they take adying.

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie.