Wisdom Quotes

"What cannot be said clearly is best passed over in silence—but there is more to say than Wittgenstein thought."

"The principle of parsimony favors simpler theories, but simplicity is relative to our conceptual scheme."

"Necessity and analyticity are matters of degree."

"What counts as an object depends on our conceptual framework."

"The criterion of identity for abstract objects is unclear."

"Every interpretation of experience is an interpretation relative to a background of beliefs."

"We cannot achieve a view from nowhere; all knowledge is perspectival."

"Identity is a relation that obtains between a thing and itself under any description."

"We are creatures of habit; our beliefs are largely inherited from our culture."

"We learn to see the world differently when our paradigm shifts."

"Every civilization has seen the universe differently, and most have resolved its conflicts into different paradigms."

"We do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are."

"We cannot escape our paradigms, we can only transcend them."

"We cannot step outside our paradigm to judge it objectively."

"The scientist who works within a paradigm is secure but constrained."

"A new paradigm often seems bizarre until it becomes familiar."

"What appears irrational to one paradigm may be rational within another."

"The world is not paradigm-independent; it depends on how we look at it."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much."

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

"Wisdom is the fruit of a life rightly spent."

"Thought is abstract; enjoyment is concrete."

"Foresight, not hindsight, is the mark of wisdom."

"We are only just now realizing what our ancestors took for granted."

"The greatest tragedies are those that could have been prevented."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold contradictory ideas."

"We construct our understanding of reality through language and social interaction."

"Independence of thought requires distance from the institutions that normalize compliance."

"The gap between what we are told and what is actually happening grows wider daily."