The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to st...udy and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its mea...ning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better tha...n gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Mortals do not know the way to it, and it is not found i...n the land of the living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »