Quotes About Wisdom

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Science is the search for truth.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

The fatal futility of Fact.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.