William Cowper Quotes

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I'd like to be very wise.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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.

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.