Quotes About Wisdom

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,Out-topping knowledge.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful:The seeds of godlike power are in us still:Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will.

Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Be his [Sophocles']My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,From first youth tested up to extreme old age,Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:Who saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Socrates has drunk his hemlock and is dead; but in his own breast does not every man carry about with him a possible Socrates, in that power of a disinterested play of consciousness upon his stock notions and habits, of which this wise and admirable man gave all through his lifetime the great example, and which was the secret of his incomparable influence?

Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:??'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves, and to prevent our getting the notion of a paramount right reason.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide. –

You know, those dead white guys, they were pretty smart, they sure had some vision. They couldn't possibly tell what was going to happen in two-hundred years, but they knew we'd need guns to deal with it, eventually.

Pope Benedict XVI: Let us pay homage to the evangelical wisdom with which my beloved predecessor was able tomguide the Church during and after the Second Vatican Council. With prophetic intuition he perceoved the hopes and anxieties of the people at that time; he strove to make the most of the positive experiences, seeking to illuminate them with the light of the truth and love of Christ, the one redeemer of humanity.

Pope Benedict XVI on Pope St Paul VI: Let us pay homage to the spirit of evangelical wisdom with which my beloved predecessor was able to guide the Church during and after the Second Vatican Council. With prophetic intuition he perceived the hopes and anxieties or the people at that time; he strove to make the most of the positive experiences, seeking to illuminate them with the light of truth and the love of Christ.