John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Knowledge … is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.