The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
O World, thou choosest not the better part It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories