John Edward Christopher Hill Quotes

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

Common sense is not so common.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.