„By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing to God above all others — humility.“
— Lahiri Mahasaya Indian yogi and guru 1828 - 1895
Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
„The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.“
— Josemaría Escrivá, #434
Josemaría Escrivá1
spanischer Geistlicher, Gründer des Opus Dei 1902 - 1975Werbung
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„If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.“
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
Context: If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science — of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of philology — may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudo-philosophical erudition.
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„There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Demonology
„If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.“
— Thomas à Kempis German canon regular 1380 - 1471
P. 37.
„A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.“
— Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600
Declaration about the scholars of England, particularly those of Oxford
„Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.“
— Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995
„The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.“
— Musa al-Kadhim Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar 745 - 799
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 419.
„If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.“
— Theophrastus ancient greek philosopher -371 - -287 v.Chr
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".
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„Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.“
— Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988
„[... ] where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.“
— Thomas Gray English poet, historian 1716 - 1771
„Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
Variant: Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 10.
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„Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949
„Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.“
— Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer 1914 - 2002
„Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.“
— William Whewell English philosopher & historian of science 1794 - 1866
Aphorism 17.
„Will the great poet come who shall settle the boundaries of belief and render it eternal, the poet who will be, not a fool, not an ignorant orator, but a wise man, the great inexorable poet?“
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
Context: I thought of all those wise men, poets, artists before me who had suffered, wept, and smiled on the road to truth. I thought of the Latin poet who wished to reassure and console men by showing them truth as unveiled as a statue. A fragment of his prelude came to my mind, learned long ago, then dismissed and lost like almost everything that I had taken the pains to learn up till then. He said he kept watch in the serene nights to find the words, the poem in which to convey to men the ideas that would deliver them. For two thousand years men have always had to be reassured and consoled. For two thousand years I have had to be delivered. Nothing has changed the surface of things. The teachings of Christ have not changed the surface of things, and would not even if men had not ruined His teachings so that they can no longer follow them honestly. Will the great poet come who shall settle the boundaries of belief and render it eternal, the poet who will be, not a fool, not an ignorant orator, but a wise man, the great inexorable poet? I do not know, although the lofty words of the man who died in the boarding-house have given me a vague hope of his coming and the right to adore him already.