A. A. Milne Quotes

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

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

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.