Dean Inge Quotes

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

A wise man is better than a prophet.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I'd like to be very wise.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

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

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.