Thomas Huxley Quotes

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I seek the truth.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Common sense is not so common.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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