Quotes About Wisdom

No comprendí entonces lo estúpidas que son las suposiciones apresuradas.

Vivere solo in funzione di una meta è sciocco. È sui fianchi delle montagne che si sviluppa la vita.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

Robert M. Pirsig

De hellingen van de berg dragen het leven, niet de top.

If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Perhaps the best single thing to learn is to recognize a value trap when you're in it and work on that before you continue on the machine.

Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret it.

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth

A vida adulta está cheia de encruzilhadas significativas nas quais fazer a coisa certa é sem dúvida mais complicado. Conduzir-se a contento por esse caminho faz parte do portfólio do córtex frontal, e desenvolver as habilidades necessárias para fazer isso de maneira correta requer um profundo aprimoramento por meio da experiência.

Never go to sea without a porpoise

C'est toujours stupide de mourir. - Oui, dit Gabet en tournant vers Maillat son visage naïf, on ne voit pas très bien à quoi ça sert, n'est-ce pas?

If I knowed I was a fool I might learn to be better and do better

It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but . . . it's almost always a conversation that shouldn't happen at all. So, if you feel the need to say, I probably shouldn't say this . . . then DON'T! Just hush. That little nudge you are feeling is probably the Holy Spirit saying, Don't go there. You're going to regret the words you're about to speak. Or as King David wrote, Muzzle it! I

Oh, yes, you can sin with your tongue! David knew this and took special steps to keep himself from that kind of sin. He knew how serious God is about the damage and destruction the tongue can do. He obviously passed this knowledge along to his son, Solomon, because in Proverbs 6, Solomon wrote: These six

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

All the knowledge that has led our species from wearing animal skins to people flying, complete with proofs, would fill a handful of reference books, but a bookcase the size of the earth would not suffice to hold all the rest, quite apart from the vast discussions that are conducted not with the pen but with the sword and chains.

Ich weiß jetzt nichts von Rätseln. Alles geschieht: Das ist die ganze Weisheit.

Die Wahrheit ist eben kein Kristall, den man in die Tasche stecken kann, sondern eine unendliche Flüssigkeit, in die man hineinfällt.

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses; it can move in all directions, and put on all the guises of truth. The truth, by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Gelegentlich sind wir alle dumm; wir müssen gelegentlich auch blind oder halbblind handeln oder die Weilt stünde still...