Wisdom Quotes

"Every genuine experience evokes thinking."

"The human sciences are concerned with the understanding of life."

"The humanities reveal the human condition."

"The human spirit strives for understanding."

"Experience is the teacher of wisdom."

"The human spirit seeks meaning always."

"The study of mankind requires understanding of the human spirit."

"The mind and heart must work together."

"The human sciences reveal human possibility."

"To understand a concept, one must understand the method of its verification."

"Philosophical problems often dissolve when we examine the linguistic confusions beneath them."

"The metaphysician asks questions that science cannot answer because they are wrongly formulated."

"The greatest philosophical achievement is to show that a problem was never really a problem."

"A single counterexample can defeat even the most eloquent theory - this is the power of reason."

"Every supposedly deep philosophical insight should be subjected to the question: what do you mean?"

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"Don't think, look!"

"All we do is compare."

"Not everything that holds our attention is worth our attention."

"It is my task to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle, not to explain the bottle."

"The aspect of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"What cannot be said can be shown."

"One of the most dangerous of errors is the idea that mental activity is what matters."

"How relieved we are when we recognize something."

"A question that cannot be posed clearly cannot be answered clearly."

"Whereof one cannot speak, one must be silent; but wherever one can speak meaningfully, one should do so carefully."

"One cannot be recognized in the mirror of nature, only in the mirror of human understanding."

"Wisdom is not something you can learn by listening; it is earned through living."

"Whereof we cannot think clearly, we cannot speak."