Cat Stevens Quotes

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

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

The wisest of the wise may err.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.