Quotes About Wisdom

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.

Mi joven amigo, mucho me complace vuestra ignorancia; es tan valiosa como la doctrina de los demás: al menos no vivís en el error y, si bien no estáis instruido, sois susceptible de estarlo. Vuestro natural, la franqueza de vuestro carácter, la rectitud de vuestro espíritu, me agradan.

Me agrada tu ignorancia, joven camarada, tiene más valor que la doctrina de los demás: tú, al menos no estás en el error, y si no eres instruido, eres capaz de llegar a serlo.

C'est que le Diable est bien malin; c'est qu'il n'est pas toujours si laid qu'on le dit.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

First our desire for money is never satisfied. Our pursuit of money is infinite. We can never say: this is enough.... There is never any limit, since in order to set a limit or a stopping point, one would need self-control and wisdom. And if one had these at the outset, he would not have had such a passion for money.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its majesty? It is wisdom. Its poverty? It is human science.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by the entire ancestry of the species in the course of its evolution.

La modestia conviene al sabio, pero no a las ideas que posee y que debe defender

Le vieux Hemingway énonçait une règle très simple: l'écrivain devait toujours s'en tenir aux sujets qu'il connaissait le mieux.

To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.