Quotes About Wisdom

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The good is the beautiful.

The absolute natures or kinds are known severally by the absolute idea of knowledge.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.

And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life well or ill.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

There is truth in wine and children

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

You should not honor men more than truth.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.