John Robinson Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

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

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Everything is a learning experience.

I think you can learn from history.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

History some truths contains, which well may serve for lessons.

Histories make men wise.

The years teach much which the days never know.