Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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.

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Information is not knowledge.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.