In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Philip Dormer StanhopeMots clés wisdom
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Isaac AsimovMots clés wisdom science knowledge learning choice universe ignorance wise achilles
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMots clés wisdom experience
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
Rainer Maria RilkeMots clés wisdom loneliness scorn childlikeness defensiveness
. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.
James Lee BurkeIn suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.
Pope John Paul IIMots clés wisdom life truth love p120
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
Erich Maria RemarqueMots clés wisdom age war maturity
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
Erich Maria RemarqueMots clés wisdom war authority
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
Scott HahnMots clés wisdom life faith virtue discipline p130
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Pope John Paul IIMots clés wisdom truth philosophy p194
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