Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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

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

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.