Echoes

It is important to distinguish between the amount of information and the quality of that information.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

I know that I know nothing.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

In every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

In pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.