Wisdom Quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

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

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worth nothing."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there ceases to be any question between wisdom and foolishness."

"Better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

"The many cannot be, for nothing can be many without first being one."

"Multiplicity leads to contradiction; therefore, true reality must be one."

"All things are either one or many; if many, they are infinite; if infinite, then all is nothing."

"Reason and experience war eternally; reason must prevail."

"The senses show us motion; reason shows us it is impossible."

"The crowd sees a moving arrow; the philosopher sees a series of static images."

"The finite and infinite cannot coexist; therefore, the world must be one or nothing."

"All things are in motion, yet nothing moves—the paradox is the truth."

"Being is one; if it is many, it is nothing; therefore, multiplicity is illusory."

"The senses deceive in all things; only the unchangeable is known to intellect."

"All things appear to move because our minds are deceived by illusion."

"The plurality of things leads necessarily to the plurality of contradictions."

"To think being is to think the unchangeable; to think change is to fail to think truly."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Knowing thyself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"No one is wiser for his learning."

"The only thing I know is the fact of my ignorance."

"Know thyself."

"And what is a benefit, if it is not also painful? The sweet is not distinguished from the bitter save by contrast."

"Wisdom requires choosing between what is right and what is easy."

"When we say pleasure is the goal, we mean not the pleasures of the debauched, but freedom from bodily pain and mental anguish."