Hugh Kingsmill Quotes

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.