Wisdom Quotes

"Our ordinary experience of the world is perhaps the least trustworthy guide to its nature."

"The paradoxes I present are not defects in thought, but defects in the world as commonly conceived."

"Consider whether the world you perceive is the world as it truly is, or merely as you conceive it."

"The paradox of motion teaches us that our intuitions about space may be profoundly mistaken."

"The division of anything into parts leads inevitably to logical absurdity."

"What appears to us as plurality is merely the confused perception of an absolute unity."

"The paradoxes are not puzzles to be solved, but truths to be recognized."

"What we perceive as change is the limitation of our understanding, not the nature of reality."

"To understand the true nature of things, abandon the senses and trust only reason."

"Our certainty in the reality of motion is the foundation of a grand deception."

"The path up and down are one and the same."

"Dry light makes the wisest and best soul."

"The eye of the mind sees deeper than the eye of the body."

"To be wise, one must know how little one knows."

"The wise are those who see the many in the one."

"The same boiling water softens the potato and hardens the egg."

"The way up and down leads to a single understanding."

"The wise speak little but are heard by many."

"The wise person expects the unexpected."

"What seems small may contain the infinite."

"The greatest virtue is to know the limits of your knowledge."

"The wise person is comfortable with contradiction."

"What separates the wise from the foolish is the ability to listen."

"The wise man does not give the right answer, he poses the right question."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

"Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way—that is not within everyone's power and is not easy."

"Virtue is a habit."

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater man to accept it graciously."