Laurence Sterne Quotes

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

They know enough who know how to learn.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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.

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

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

Nobody is born wise.

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.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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

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

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.