Anthony Hope Quotes

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

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.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

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

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.