Edward Young Quotes

I'd like to be very wise.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

... smart but not wise.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

The wisest of the wise may err.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.