Quotes About Wisdom

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself

en situaciones emocionales, antes de decir cualquier cosa, pide un momento para pensar.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

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For my wife, Mozelle, who, honeysuckle-fairytale downhome girl that she is, was, as the old folks used to say, born knowing.

Nor was his point that the meek shall inherit the earth. His point was that no man could inherit the earth, that the only thing worth inheriting is humanity.

The only nugget of unimpeachable wisdom I have been able to glean from my lifetime of intensive dog study can be summed up on this one grim axiom: "Anything can happen!

But a collie is like no other dog. Back in his brain ever lurks the queerly wise instinct, though never incurable savagery, of the olden wolves he sprang from.

Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

porque sabiduría, fuerza y belleza, son la perfección de todo, y nada puede durar sin ellas." "Porque," el Rito de York dice, "es necesario que haya Sabiduría para concebir, fuerza para soportar y belleza para adornar todas las grandes e importantes empresas.