Wisdom Quotes - Page 142

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The days are long, but the years are short.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.