Quotes About Wisdom

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy--of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

All that blood and...stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day

Though you are Ivanov the seventh, you're a fool all the same.