Francis Quarles Quotes

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I'd like to be very wise.

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

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.