Roy H. Williams Quotes

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I'd like to be very wise.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

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

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

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.

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

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'