James Stephens Quotes

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We are wiser than we know.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.

It's important to be enlightened.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

To know is not less than to feel.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The wise are wise only because they love.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Love is wiser than wisdom.