Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.