Wednesday, November 6, 2013

QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM





“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” 
― Isaac Asimov  

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” 

― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” 

― Confucius 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.” 
― Kahlil Gibran


“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” 
― Law Tzu,Tao Te  Ching

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” 

― Albert Einstein 

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” 

― Leo Buscaglia

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” 

― Maya Angelou

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” 

― Voltaire

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” 

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” 

― William Blake,The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” 

― Marcel Proust

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” 
― Baltasar Gracian,The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” 

― Galileo Galilei

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.” 

― C.G. Jung 


“To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.” 


― Heraclitus,Fragments

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.” 
― Michel de Montaigne,The Complete Essays 

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