Hugo von Hofmannsthal Quotes

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Even though you can have a youthful energy, it doesn't mean that you can't know a lot and bring a lot to the situation.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

History and philosophy are the two eyes of wisdom. If one of them is missing, then one only has half vision.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Education is understanding relationships.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.