Quotes About Wisdom

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Metaphysics is a science.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.