Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

I seek the truth.

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

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

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.

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

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.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

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

I'm young but I'm not stupid.