Quotes About Wisdom

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.