Quotes About Wisdom

Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

No hay ninguna guía para la muerte. Nadie puede decirte qué hacer, qué es lo que te espera

Celý život je pre m?a ?ítanie osobnou útechou.

Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside

Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another--one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly--he said "Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it?

He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.

Dopo i politici e i poeti mi rivolsi agli artisti e indovinate che cosa scoprii? Che costoro, coscienti di esercitare bene la propria professione, pensavano di essere sapienti anche in altre cose, magari più importanti e difficili.

A voi giovani l'unica cosa che importa sapere è se ho raccontato un aneddoto vero o falso e sottovalutate il fatto che contenga la verità che cerchiamo».

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that is good taste.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

The majority of parents we come into contact with have lost their faith and therefore have lost any kind of dependence on God. They are deprived of all the gifts that God can give them to raise their children properly; they are deprived of the wisdom and the discernment to guide their children when needed.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Yo he aprendido más de mi tierra yendo a los indios ranqueles, que en diez años de despestañarme, leyendo opúsculos, folletos, gacetillas, revistas y libros especiales.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

What fools these mortals be.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.