Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Much learning does not teach sense.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

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

... smart but not wise.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

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.

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