Quotes About Wisdom

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. BILL COSBY

Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza. Others had done these things and more, but they had not.

Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Jacob Henle, the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory, echoed Francis Bacon when he said, "Nature answers only when she is questioned.

Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.

Over most of the one thousand years of philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy was assiduously studied in every generation by many ancient philosophers and their students as the best way to become good people and to live good human lives.

Mike Brand had counseled his brother not to focus on selecting individual courses but rather to find the best professors. One of those he recommended was a charismatic professor of religion, Frederic Spiegelberg.

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

Education is soul crafting.