Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it ...
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper ...
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand ...
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend ...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life ...
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment ...
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all ...
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us ...
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification ...
Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition ...
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant ...