Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

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

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

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

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

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

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

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The wise are above books.

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

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

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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

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 first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.