James Howell Quotes

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.

It's important to be enlightened.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.