Heraclitus Quotes

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

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.

The best vision is insight.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

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.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

Nobody is born wise.

A wise man is better than a prophet.