Quotes About Wisdom

Perhaps, within these limits, we can learn enough from history to bear reality patiently, and to respect one another's delusions.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

One work of genius is worth a thousand commentaries.

says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon. So, brave reader, you have fair warning: proceed at your own risk. But I shall be warmed by your company. Will Durant

That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only

No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

Age has a way of giving humans a gravitas that they haven't earned. Like most people, I have essentially the same personality I had at twenty-two. But because a decade has passed since then, I'm given more authority now. I'm thought of as wiser. I'm not. The same shit will happen in another decade. I'll still be the same guy. But "wiser." And as much of an idiot as ever. I like it. I could get used to this adult business.

Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.

The gift of story is wisdom

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

Prayer? I asked. Of course. If you're not connected to the source of all knowledge, you're no better than a telephone when one of these lines is down. He gestured with his stick at the wires above our heads.

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

And then you're old, and your life is like a book you read too quickly. All you can remember are a few scattered images and random thoughts. No sense of the whole.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Knowledge is Life with wings