Jessica Williams Quotes

You can observe a lot by watching.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

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

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

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.

Change is the end result of all true learning.