Quotes About Wisdom

All profound utterances have varied facets for diverse minds.

Meanwhile the old "laughing philosopher" was cultivating his garden at Ferney; this "is the best thing we can do on earth.

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

How little you know the age you live in, says a god in Ovid, if you fancy that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Such was the end of our friend, whom I may truly call the wisest, the justest, and best of all the men whom I have ever known.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari—

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

In the face of warfare and inevitable death, there is no wisdom but in ataraxia,—"to look on all things with a mind at peace.

Some books are to be tasted," reads a famous passage, "others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested";

In general, the wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done the opposite; and so it will continue. For, as Voltaire says, we shall leave the world as foolish and wicked as we found it."65

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.

in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates

Before Aristotle, science was in embryo; with him it was born.

Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

At the end, we meet death. Just as experience begins to coördinate itself into wisdom, brain and body begin to decay.

Now began the great game of epistemology

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing, Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Who knows how these cherished beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought? There is no philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself. Gnothi seauton, said Socrates: Know thyself.

There can be no victory over the ills of life until the will has been utterly subordinated to knowledge and intelligence.

bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Vanity increases with age.