Quotes About Wisdom

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.