Bill Nighy Quotes

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I learn from experience.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.