Heraclitus Quotes

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Nobody is born wise.

... smart but not wise.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.