Quotes About Wisdom

You see, then, that it is necessary for you to become a student, that creature which every one laughs at, if you really desire to make an examination of your judgements. But this, as you are quite aware, is not the work of a single hour or day

well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned

Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it's based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body. [36]

Thus do the more cautious of travellers act. The road is said to be beset by robbers. The traveller will not venture alone, but awaits the companionship on the road of an ambassador, a quaestor or a proconsul. To him he attaches himself and thus passes by in safety. So doth the wise man in the world.

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Be sure to foresee whatever can be foreseen by planning. Observe and avoid, long before it happens, anything that is likely to do you harm. To effect this your best assistance will be a spirit of confidence and a mind strongly resolved to endure all things. He who can bear Fortune, can also beware of Fortune. At any rate, there is no dashing of billows when the sea is calm. And there is nothing more wretched or foolish than premature fear. What madness it is to anticipate one's troubles!

The man has to learn 'what each specific thing means', as Socrates often said, and stop casually applying preconceptions to individual cases.

Having this, then, we must inherit that; destroying this, then that is ended too; no birth, old age, disease, or death; no earth, or water, fire, or wind. No beginning, end, or middle; and no deceptive systems of philosophy; this is the standpoint of wise men and sages; the certain and exhausted termination, complete Nirvâna. Such

Fools follow after vanity. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those

Six years is a considerable time in human life, and if it be true that the witty remarks one makes at a dinner party seem peculiarly foolish the next morning, how much more does the enthusiasm of 1930 appear foolish in 1936.

W obu ?wiatach prawd? jest, ?e je?li szukasz dobra i prawdy, pi?kno znajdzie si? samo.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.

Molto più importante di quello che sappiamo o non sappiamo è quello che non vogliamo sapere.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Montaigne: "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed." PART 1

I have a tremendously high opinion of the age of five, by the way. I actually think that to become really mature is to return to the age of five, to become able to recapture the capacity for absorption, for learning, the tremendous hunger to master skills that you have at five years...I always feel that I was a brilliant child at the age of five, and that I've been declining ever since.

Education does not educate and gentle the heart.

jokes are used to hide the truth!