Jonathan Kozol Quotes

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.