Quotes About Wisdom

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].