Henry James Quotes

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

We are wiser than we know.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.