Quotes About Wisdom

El día en que dejamos de aprender es el día en que morimos.

Alle oosterse vechtkunsten hebben een gemeenschappelijke oorsprong. En die oorsprong ben ik,' zei Scatty bescheiden.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

When Watson and Crick announced that they had discovered what they called 'the secret of life' in 1953, they were merely rediscovering something alchemists have always known.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.

If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. —ISAAC ASIMOV, THE RELATIVITY OF WRONG, 1989

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great … He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radical new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution, Christians and conservatives strengthen their religion, their politics, and science itself. The conflict between science and religion is senseless. It is based on fears and misunderstandings rather than on facts and moral wisdom. (138)

Oscar Wilde: "Many people know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

While you are alive, conquer death, and you shall have no regrets in the end.' Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

Wisdom is a gift.The mind is its home

Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

You start by reading books, and you end by loving them

It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.

if you don't know what you're talking about, then don't talk, or at least say you don't know.

It is a sad truth, but it is a truth, indeed, that the knowledge of the human species far surpasses their wisdom.

I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.