Wisdom Quotes

"Real understanding comes from asking better questions, not from having all the answers."

"I never sought to change the world—I only sought to understand it more deeply."

"The inability to perceive that existence preceded creation is the primary barrier to understanding."

"The main axes of evil in this world are stupidity, weakness of will, and cruelty."

"It is better to have light in one's being than to have created the most powerful and illuminating intelligence."

"It is impossible to obtain a conviction of the existence of absolute evil in the world without the existence of absolute good."

"The greatest problem is to make the spiritual forces that are contained in the scientific knowledge of nature develop their full power for the good of mankind."

"There is some point to which the mind naturally gravitates."

"Who looks in is led by his inner impulses, and his knowledge extends as far as his vision."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"It is better to be able to look at a moment of experience than to have seen or experienced many things in a confused way."

"There is an instinctive reaction to reject something that one cannot understand."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."

"Better an approximate answer to the right question than an exact answer to the wrong question."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution."

"I would not be wise if I did not know myself."

"When you find a mistake you've made by learning the truth—that is wisdom."

"The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth."

"It's difficult to predict the future, especially the distant future."

"One should not calculate unless the calculation can tell you something new."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

"Man might diminish his suffering greatly by diminishing his desires."

"I think that we should accept the realisation that the world is complex and multifaceted."

"We should never stop questioning our assumptions and beliefs."

"I have learned that humility is essential to the pursuit of knowledge."