Quotes about Wisdom

While God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Logos is deeper than logic.