Walter Lippmann Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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

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

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.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

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.

From one learn all.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

No law or ordinance is mightier than 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.