Quotes About Wisdom

I am not too much into political awareness, but I had known a lot about Indira Gandhi's strong persona. Obviously, she had a powerful personality and a lot of clarity and wisdom to rule India for so long.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

Research is the highest form of adoration

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Read Euler , read Euler , he is the master of us all.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

Information is power. --Humfrey

The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

THE ROAD TO WISDOM The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

MEETING THE EYE You'll probably find that it suits your book to be a bit cleverer than you look. Observe that the easiest method by far is to look a bit stupider than you are.

A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES How instructive is a star! It can teach us from afar just how small each other are.

VITA BREVIS A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.