Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Knowledge itself is power.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

You only know what you know.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

The question is just as important as the answer.

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

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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.

Knowledge is power.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Much learning does not teach understanding.