Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Wisdom, Knowledge, Ignorance
Temet Nosce (Nosce te ipsum)
(“Know Thyself”)
The Ignorance is not an excuse! ("Ignorantia juris non excusat")
“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“Wise men speak because they have something to say;
fools because they have to say something.”
― Plato
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucius
“There is no elevator to the spiritual wisdom.
You have to take the stairs.”
― Anonymous
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils
“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there”
― Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain
“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie (The Admirable Crichton)
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy-tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
“There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot)
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum (The Lost Princess of Oz)
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters
“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”
― Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Haruki Murakami (What I Talk about When I Talk about Running)
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything)
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Murakami
“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)
