Words of wisdom

Words of Wisdom

Here are some delightful quotations and quotes that are words of wisdom. This selection of quotes concentrates on what several writers had to say about wisdom itself !!! There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Charles Caleb Colton Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. Socrates It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J Boorstin



If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.
Frank Gelett Burgess



He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards



The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust