John Selden Quotes

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

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

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.