Quotes About Wisdom

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.

I know a guy who had his nose broken in two places. He ought to stay out of those places.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a point of contact.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

En ce point est quelque chose de simple, d'infiniment simple, de si extraordinairement simple que le philosophe n'a jamais réussi à le dire. Et c'est pourquoi il a parlé toute sa vie.

The theory of knowledge is inseparable from the theory of life. They must unite so that each may move the other forward.

Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the object itself by an effort of intuition.

We have read as many texts as possible.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could].

If youth but know, And old age only could.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.