Wisdom Quotes

"All genuine inquiry is a form of conversation."

"The mark of a great mind is the ability to entertain contrary ideas."

"Understanding requires empathy and imaginative reconstruction."

"The study of history teaches us humility and wisdom."

"We understand humanity by studying its expressions across cultures."

"Understanding requires both analysis and intuitive empathy."

"Understanding is always incomplete, always open to new insight."

"The human being is for himself the measure of all things."

"Man should not raise his eyes to heaven or sink them in the dust, but rather direct them to earth and to his fellowman."

"Man is a self-conscious animal."

"Action without thought is blindness."

"Understanding requires empathy."

"Wisdom is the integration of knowledge and experience."

"The practice of altruism is the highest form of human existence."

"The intellect must govern the emotions."

"Wisdom is knowing what is worth preserving and what must change."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

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

"We are made up largely of pathways worn by our habits."

"Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so easily be converted into a bracing and tonic thing."

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance."

"The sovereign cure for worry is action."

"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information: the principle of contempt prior to investigation."

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is the same way."

"Most people live in the world as if they were asleep."

"A person only understands things in accordance with their own experience."