Clarence Day Quotes

Information is not knowledge.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.