Quotes About Wisdom

Come with me now, Pilgrim of the stars, For our time is upon us and our eyes shall see the far country and the shining cities of Infinity which the wise men knew in ages past, and shall know again in ages yet to be.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,That's a' the learning I desire.

An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

I found that old Solomon proved it fair, That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,the one to be held by, the other not.

Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

I light my candle from their torches.

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

If you can develop the high-level policy without committing to the details that surround it, you can delay and defer decisions about those details for a long time. And the longer you wait to make those decisions, the more information you have with which to make them properly.

This is the philosophy of YAGNI: "You aren't going to need it." There is wisdom in this message, since over-engineering is often much worse than under-engineering. On the other hand, when you discover that you truly do need an architectural boundary where none exists, the costs and risks can be very high to add such a boundary.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Truth can only be found in one place: the code.