John Burroughs Quotes

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

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

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.

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

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

... smart but not wise.