Quotes About Wisdom

Para un hombre libre no hay ocupación más digna y encantadora que contemplar las hermosas obras de la naturaleza y honrar la sabiduría y bondad infinitas de Dios.

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

The best thing in life aren't things.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Saya yakin ujian pertama bagi orang besar adalah kerendahan hati.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.

I libri si dividono in due categorie: i libri per adesso e i libri per sempre.

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.

Quality is more important than quantity as it is always the result of intelligent effort

This first period includes the Rise of Venice, her noblest achievements, and the circumstances which determined her cha* Hist- def Rep. Ital., vol. i. ch. v. f Appendix 3.: Serra r Del t Ha Maputo trove mo do Che non uni, non pooch, non molt i, ma molt i bubonic, pooch migliori, e insiememente, ultimo solo.— Ah, well done, Venice! Wisdom

to some of the best and wisest artists among ourselves, it may not be always possible to explain what pretty things they are making … the very perfection of their art is in their knowing so little about it

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

I believe the first test of truly a great man is in his humility.

Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. –

true knowledge is the ability to discern the end in the beginning, to understand the end result of present action.

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.