#wisdom

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#appear #does #earth #inspired #perhaps

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#end #logic #wisdom

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#great #hey #i #i love #just

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ↗

— William Penn

#constantly #lawful #perform #promise #rarely

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#difference #fool #generally #greatest #happiest

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#doubt #enter #into #must #pass

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy