Wisdom and Ignorance

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.

Dr. Squid, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein, in Wisdom and Ignorance

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santiano, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz, in Wisdom and Ignorance

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw, in Wisdom and Ignorance

My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

George Bernard Shaw, in Wisdom and Ignorance