Plutarch Quotes

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Life is our dictionary.

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.