Quotes About Wisdom

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Philosophy is not a doctrine but a way of life, so the philosophers, for all the differences in their teachings, have more in common with one another than with anyone else, even their own followers.

The Ancients subjected themselves to a fierce discipline of detachment from public opinion. Although they inevitably had to try to influence political life in their favor, they never seriously thought of themselves as founders or lawgivers. The mixture of unwise power and powerless wisdom, in the ancients view, would always end up with power strengthened and wisdom compromised. He who flirts with power, Socrates said, will be compelled to lie with it.

Although it is foolish to believe that book learning is anything like the whole of education, it is always necessary, particularly in ages when there is a poverty of living examples of the possible high human types.

Reason is only one part of the souls economy and requires a balance of the other parts in order to function properly.

The Bible is not the only means to furnish a mind, but without a book of similar gravity, read with the gravity of the potential believer, it will remain unfurnished.

The family requires a certain authority and wisdom about the ways of the heavens and of men. The parents must have knowledge of what has happened in the past, and prescriptions for what ought to be, in order to resist the philistinism or the wickedness of the present.

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Once you harden, the arteries do.

O homem pode enganar -se, deixar -se iludir, sem que, por isso, seja louco.

E assim como só conhecemos a doutrina de Jesus pelos escritos de seus discípulos, só conhecemos a de Sócrates pelos escritos de seu discípulo Platão.

porque no hay fe inalterable sino la que puede mirar frente a frente a la razón en todas las edades de la humanidad".

É melhor repelir dez verdades do que admitir uma única falsidade, uma só teoria errônea.

Si el hombre conociera el porvenir descuidaría el presente.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.