Wisdom Quotes

"Our emotions are not obstacles to morality but essential components of it."

"We can understand morality only by understanding the human form of life."

"Virtue requires the integration of our rational and emotional natures."

"Virtue allows us to experience the world and other people correctly."

"Our moral understanding improves as we gain experience in living well."

"Our emotions and desires need not be enemies of moral understanding."

"We must attend carefully to the ordinary uses of language to dissolve philosophical puzzles."

"Wisdom consists in distinguishing what matters from what merely seems important."

"Affliction is the sole source of the sacred."

"Sorrow is not an enemy but a companion."

"Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of events."

"Understanding and forgiving are not the same as condoning."

"To judge is to distinguish good from evil."

"Judgment requires imagination and particularity."

"The crisis of our time is not economic but spiritual."

"We inherit the past but are not bound by it."

"Man cannot live by reason alone."

"Silence can be more eloquent than speech."

"Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."

"Wisdom is knowing when reason must yield to faith."

"The search for certainty in philosophy often blinds us to the richness of what we already know in practice."

"Wisdom consists not in the accumulation of knowledge, but in the judgment to know what matters and when."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being driven into the street."

"To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom worth possessing."

"Wisdom lies in knowing when to act and when to refrain."

"Spirit in man is that which makes him capable of turning to the other."

"The world is twofold, in accordance with man's twofold attitude."

"A man never knows what he himself is capable of understanding until he has had a certain relationship with a man."

"Man's role is not to dominate the other but to relate to him."

"We are bewitched by language; philosophy is a battle against this bewitchment."