Quotes About Wisdom

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Libraries are our friends.

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep

What a fool I used to be (The truest words I ever wrote, and they get truer every day. )

We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience so gullible as to accept it.

Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.

Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less ignorant. Doctors do not generally concern themselves with health; they concentrate on sickness. And lawyers don't think too much about justice; they think about cases of injustice. Using this model in teaching would imply identifying and understanding various forms of ignorance and working to eliminate as many of them as we can.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.

We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4

In fact, the assumption that smartness is something you "have" had led to such nonsensical terms as over-and underachievers.

Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?

Thou shalt not write down thy principles, still less print them, lest thou shall be entrapped by them for all time.

we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge? Here

La inteligencia se define fundamentalmente como nuestra capacidad para captar la verdad de las cosas.

La ignorancia es siempre corregible pero, ¿qué pasaría con nosotros si llegáramos a aceptar que la ignorancia es conocimiento?

Question asking is the most important intellectual tool we have.

technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines "freedom," "truth," "intelligence," "fact," "wisdom," "memory," "history"—all the words we live by. And it does not pause to tell us. And we do not pause to ask.

For instance, Thamus warns that the pupils of Theuth will develop an undeserved reputation for wisdom. He means to say that those who cultivate competence in the use of a new technology become an elite group that are granted undeserved authority and prestige by those who have no such competence.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.