Francis Picabia Quotes

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Histories make men wise.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.