Quotes About Wisdom

Si cinquante millions de gens disent une sottise, ça n'en reste pas moins une sottise.

La razón guía y alumbra, pero si la divinizáis, acaso ciegue y sea instigadora de crímenes…

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Cercando di istruirlo, non farà altro che umiliarlo e affaticarlo. Non tenti d'illuminare la sua ignoranza, se non vuole che l'accusi d'insultare le sue convinzioni.

Draže su mi greške entuzijazma nego ravnodušnost mudrosti.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Great doubts, deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom -

God created for you two eyes and two ears but one tongue so that you say half what you see and hear.

God created two noses: one smells loyalty and the other smells treasury and the mind between them to judge.

The more wine gets through your mouth the more silly words come out of it.

Plato described in great detail a plan for government in which philosophers would take turns ruling the less able people of the country. As you may remember, Plato and his friends were philosophers.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

Inside, however, in our core, past the aches, pains and creaking joints of age, youth still resides. Keep that in mind. As