Wisdom Quotes

"To philosophize authentically is to question everything, including the very grounds of our questioning."

"To understand another person, we must bracket our assumptions and try to grasp how the world appears to them."

"Science without phenomenology is blind; phenomenology without science is empty."

"Reason is not a fixed thing but an infinite task, always expanding its horizons."

"To philosophize is to refuse all easy answers and to dwell patiently with the deepest questions."

"The reduction to consciousness is the most radical and profound return to the beginning of all knowledge."

"The intuitive fulfillment of meaning is what distinguishes genuine understanding from mere conceptual manipulation."

"To think is to be always already implicated in a world of meanings that both constitute and exceed us."

"Meaning is neither purely objective nor purely subjective; it emerges from the dynamic relation between them."

"The ultimate foundation of all knowledge and truth is transcendental consciousness in its essential structures."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools."

"All evil results from the excess of something good."

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

"Words are the counters of wise men but the money of fools."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about your thoughts."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."

"To the questions of life we respond not by the intellect alone, but by the whole nature of man."

"The greatest wealth is health, the greatest richness is wisdom, and the greatest possession is contentment."

"A problem well put is half solved."

"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."

"Modern life requires that we think in terms of what the problem is, not in terms of isolated facts."

"There is a level of spiritual insight to be gotten in real living."

"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man."

"The intelligent person is one who can adjust to new conditions and benefit from experience."

"We are all born with intuitions that we cannot possibly explain."

"A false idea is one that would not work."