Wisdom Quotes

"A belief is of the nature of a habit."

"The art of being sensible is the art of reading between the lines."

"A man of sense only talks of what he knows."

"Our thoughts are ruled by less rational processes than we like to believe."

"Passion without reason is blindness."

"Wisdom is the fruit of experience and reflection."

"Understanding others means entering into their inner worlds and experiencing their lived experiences."

"Understanding requires not just intellect but the engagement of the whole person."

"We must approach other cultures with humility and a genuine desire to understand them from within."

"Cultural traditions carry within them accumulated wisdom about how to live."

"The interpretation of others requires that we surrender our prejudgments and truly listen."

"The richness of human experience cannot be captured by any single methodology or framework."

"The past calls out to us, demanding that we honor it through understanding and interpretation."

"We understand others by imaginatively inhabiting their perspective and lived world."

"We cannot understand the individual apart from the cultural and historical totality."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"One of the most dangerous of errors is to suppose that pain is a simple idea."

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

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

"Words are like the mileposts of thoughts."

"Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world."

"A man is a microcosm of the world."

"If a man could write a book on Ethics which really was a book on Ethics, this book would, with an explosion, destroy all the other books in the world."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths."

"What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but shown."

"A person caught in a philosophical confusion is like a man in a room who wants to get out."

"In philosophy the winner of the dispute wins nothing of value."

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city."

"How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."