Born Quote by Laozi

The named was born from the unnamed . . . all being flows from non-being . . . the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

— Laozi

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

— Ricardo Reis

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

— Anonymous

“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in…

— Susanna Clarke

“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain and opens his mind…

— Anonymous

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

— Alexander Pope

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

— Aidan Chambers

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they…

— Herman Melville

A wise person is not someone who knows everything, they are someone who listens like they know nothing.

— Anonymous