Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Everything is a learning experience.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Nobody is born wise.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Experience can be a great teacher.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.