Quotes About Wisdom

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...

Authority, used correctly, is a deeply positive, nurturing thing.

Brawn without brains is powerless

this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity. Those tribesmen treasure, above all things, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

Love, sing, cry, and fight, but all the time, seek to know everything you can about the earth upon which you stand, till your time is done.

We should never let our personal opinions screw up smart business choices.

When people don't take the time to become well educated, they are most likely making their decision based solely on price, which generally means they're not the best fit.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.