Quotes About Wisdom

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

People think of education as something they can finish.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

hakol havel (Hebrew: "Vanity of vanities… All is vanity"): Ecclesiastes 12:8.

Foolish old age is no less pitiful than cowardly youth.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

Voi sapete tutto. Ma a che vi serve, se avete sempre gli occhiali sul naso e l'autunno nell'anima?

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love…. In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.