Quotes About Wisdom

Philosophy is for living, not just learning.

Whoever yields to fate becomes wise, by learning the laws of heaven. —Euripides

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature.

That's the kind of attitude you need to cultivate if you would be a philosopher, the sort of sentiments you should write down every day and put in practice.

Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.

What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.

sophistical questions, so we ought to exercise ourselves

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos

If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.

So – a true philosopher is under no obligation to respect vulgar opinion as to what is religious or irreligious, what is just or unjust. What dishonour he brings on philosophers in general if he did! That's not what you learned here.

Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.

An ignorant person is one who is tossed about between elation and despair by external forces and events.

Whatever is enough is abundant in the eyes of virtue.

Geef me de moed om alles te accepteren wat niet in mijn vermogen ligt, de kracht om alles te veranderen wat wel in mijn vermogen ligt, en de wijsheid om tussen die twee te onderscheiden.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.

We have two ears and one mouth-so that we can listen twice as much as we speak

Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny, To the goal I was long ago assigned And I will follow without hesitation. Even should I resist, In a spirit of perversity, I will have to follow nonetheless. [2] Whoever yields to necessity graciously We account wise in God's ways.

death is nothing to fear in itself, or Socrates would have run from it.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned'.

Study, not in order to add anything to your knowledge, but to make your knowledge better.

You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant, – even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well as any: As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought.