Quotes About Wisdom

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

In a capitalist society one can hold on to one's fortune only if one perpetually acquires it anew by investing it wisely.

The thesis of etatism that the members of the government and its assistants are more intelligent than the people, and that they know better what is good for the individual than he himself knows, is pure nonsense.

History cannot teach us any general rule, principle, or law. There is no means to abstract from a historical experience a posteriori any theories or theorems concerning human conduct and policies. The

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

If people never did silly things, then nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Just so you know, I begin, when they say 'Once upon a time'... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see