Quotes About Wisdom

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

As old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Life well spent is long.

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

The knowledge of all things is possible

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

La scienza, come la poesia, si sa che sta ad un passo dalla follia [...]

Le malattie delle persone intelligenti per tre quarti provengono dalla loro intelligenza.

E l'anima che mente, non il corpo. "Il nostro corpo e il buon cane che che guida il cieco".

Ma certe cose che la mente non intende, il cuore le intende.

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.