Quotes About Wisdom

The question is: how to be useful!" A great teacher can change your life in thirty seconds.

Technology" does not necessarily mean "science and engineering." Techne, the Greek word from which "technology" derives, means, after all, "useful knowledge," or "organized skill," rather than "engineering.

Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.

Sir, I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I'm not sir, and that sir is an idiot.

you get smarter the more you learn.

Zeichen eines großen Schriftstellers (Doderer): man nimmt von ihm auch praktische Ratschläge für den Alltag an

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it's highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed.

Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror. But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.

The Bible is closer to poetry than to a scientific manual, and the biblical writers' use of words is more like that of poets than of linguists or scientists.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

Go back to Socrates: Know thyself. For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?

Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.

Haven't you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise

Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.

As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.

that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually the gravest? Perhaps the wise are grave because they remember the grave.

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.