Horace Mann Quotes

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

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

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Beware of current truths.

The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.