Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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

Information is not knowledge.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.