Wisdom Quotes

"To be human is to be claimed by what is infinitely outside myself."

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom."

"Every great intellectual effort is attended by some obscurity in language."

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it to be true."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wise people so full of doubts."

"To speak is already to betray the unspeakable."

"To understand is sometimes to misunderstand profoundly."

"The night offers what day cannot provide."

"To understand is to misunderstand in a new way."

"The night teaches what reason cannot comprehend."

"What we call common sense is precisely the most insidious form of ideological naturalization."

"The apparent naturalness of present arrangements is the greatest trick ideology has ever performed."

"To think critically is to subject one's own thought to critique, to acknowledge one's own implication in ideology."

"The pursuit of true happiness requires the rejection of false needs."

"False consciousness is the greatest enemy of freedom."

"True wisdom knows the limits of its own knowledge."

"The impossible is where true experience begins."

"We mistake accumulation for meaning when emptiness might be the answer."

"The body speaks a language that reason can only interrupt."

"The authentic gesture is the one made at total cost to the self."

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"Every man is a philosopher, though perhaps not always aware of it."

"The masses are capable of understanding complex philosophical ideas if properly taught."

"Common people are capable of profound philosophical thought and reflection."

"The people's common sense contains both progressive and reactionary elements that must be sorted."