Quotes About Wisdom

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

The science of life… is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

First signs of the age when wisdom begins? There are moments when my past makes me ashamed. When I'm embarrassed to have taken so much while giving so little.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools, Yet never have I felt but very proud, Though I have suffered agonies of hell, Of living in my own peculiar cell. - My House

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.