Quotes about Wisdom

They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn't a thing.

He has something we don't have, he has the word.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.