Democritus Quotes

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Knowledge itself is power.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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