Wisdom Quotes

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a rudder."

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."

"Everything is interesting if you look at it closely enough."

"I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."

"What matters is the depth of your consciousness of what you do in life."

"Do not follow rules blindly – understand them first."

"Genius is not about being smart – it's about asking better questions."

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"All knowledge begins with wonder."

"To query reality, you must ask the right questions."

"Every human problem has a solution; we need only the wisdom to find it."

"Nature is simple and does not multiply causes without necessity."

"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."

"There is a grandeur in this view of life."

"The very essence of instinct is that it is followed independently of reason."

"He is not to be wise in the things of this world who is not equally wise in the things of the next."

"Before I had found out that the simpler explanations of nature generally prove to be the true ones."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"The best thing is to not fight it, just go along with it."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"There are only a few who are wise by their own wisdom."

"Misfortune is often the soil from which discovery springs forth."