Quotes About Wisdom

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

Truths kindle light for truths.

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity?

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity? I could have lied. I could have continued to lie.

It's much cleverer to keep out of trouble than to get out.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

There is no power on earth so great as the power of intellect. It moves the world and it moves the earth.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

happy those who learn wisdom at another's expense!

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Der Religion ist nur das Heilige wahr, der Philosophie ist nur das Wahre heilig.

Thou believest in love as a divine attribute because thy thyself lovest; thou believest that God is a wise, benevolent being because thou knowest nothing better in thyself than benevolence and wisdom; and thou believest that God exists, that therefore he is a subject … because thou thyself existest, art thyself a subject[.]

Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off.... They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy