Jonathan Swift Quotes

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

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

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

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 varies among the young, as among the old.

The best vision is insight.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Common sense is not so common.