Heraclitus Quotes

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.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Nobody is born wise.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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.

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

From one learn all.