Quotes About Wisdom

Only those who never moved a finger to acquire them should talk about money and power.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

A little patience in dealing with a fool helps us avoid sacrificing our good manners to our convictions.

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

Istruire non è indicare soluzioni, ma rivelare problemi.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

Negarse a admirar es la marca de la bestia.

Racionalismo es el seudónimo oficial del Gnosticismo.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.

Aufklärung es la traducción circunspecta de Gnosis.

Verdad es aquello que cualquier imbécil refuta.

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary. We only learn what we were born to know.