William James Quotes

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Nobody is born wise.

We have changed because we have learned.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

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

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There is so much more to understand.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.