Carefully selected quotes about wisdom
“The arena of love belongs to those who have attained and understood.”
“Dont be like a knife; always for me, pain for me. Dont be like a grater; always for you, always for you. Be like a saw; both for you and me.”
“Not knowing that one should ask about what one does not know is also a part of ignorance.”
“Those who, despite seeing the truth, refuse to change their thoughts, live as if they are content with their ignorance.”
“Even if you try to hide behind your virginity, your body cannot conceal the harlot in your soul. If chastity were only about the legs, the cows udder would hide…”
“A smile is wisdom.”
“The mechanical mathematical sciences are a paradise for they lead one to the fruits of mathematics.”
“There's more than one way to go the wrong way. But there is only one way to do right. That's why it's easy to do wrong and why it's hard to do right.”
“If a person speaks in short sentences, he has long fatigue.”
“Happy people are not those who have the best of everything, but those who love what they have enough not to lose it.”
“The majority is ignorant because ignorance is easily and conveniently acquired.”
“A person who cannot see his own truth or does not hear it from others keeps this truth in a corner of his mind. That man is completely worthless.”
“As long as there is someone who will say 'I read, therefore I write', the universe will express itself.”
“The human brain is like a millstone. If you don't throw anything new into it, it grinds itself.”
“One cannot find oneself without losing oneself.”
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Alfred North Whitehead
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