James Hillman Quotes

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

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 love and light and vision.

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

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

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.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Some are smart but they are not wise

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.