Ben Carson Quotes

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.

All experience is good experience.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Information is not knowledge.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

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

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Nobody is born wise.

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

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.