Joseph Roux Quotes

Much learning does not teach sense.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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.

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

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

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

Information is not knowledge.

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

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

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

Nobody is born wise.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

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

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.