He who knows nothing doubts nothing. ~Italian Proverb

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt
*this only implies that learned men are the biggest crooks.*

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. ~Socrates

Men can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
~Spanish proverb

The difference between an experienced person and an educated person is: an educated person recognises his mistakes, then makes them again. ~? (Unaccredited)

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. ~The Talmud

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
Wanted: Wise man. Enquire within.

Long on hair, short on brains. ~French proverb

Stupidity is too often beauty's imperfection. ~French proverb

Much knowledge is a curse. ~Chuang-tzu

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ~Baltasar Gracián

C'est une grand folie de vouloir être sage tout seul.
It's foolish to want to be the only wise one.
~François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), Réflexions

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

No wisdom like silence. ~Traditional

A sinner can reform, but stupidity is forever. ~? (Unaccredited)

Be happy. It is a way of being wise. ~Colette

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~Catherine the Great

He who teaches often learns himself. ~Italian proverb

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
~Danish proverb

Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
~English proverb

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~H(enry). L(ouis). Mencken (1880-1956)

No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson

Knowledge begins a gentleman, but 'tis conversation that completes him. ~Traditional

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. ~Traditional

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres.
~Horace (65-8 B.C.) {That was how the quote was written}

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
~Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Sophias phthonēsai mallon ē ploutou kalon.
It is better to envy wisdom than riches. ~Greek proverb

To sophon d' ou sophia.
Cleverness is not wisdom. ~Euripides, The Bacchae

Everyone is wise until he speaks. ~Irish proverb

Corporis exigui vires contempnere noli:
Consilio pollet cui vim natura negavit.
Don't despise the strength of a weak body
-- wisdom flourishes in him to whom nature has denied strength. ~Catonis Disticha

Vultu an natura sapiens sis, multum interest.
To appear wise is not the same as being born wise.
~Publilius syrus : Sententiae

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~John Wooden

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
~Confucius (c. 550-c.478 B.C), Analects

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ~Samuel Johnson

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them. ~Mary Parker Follett

It is well for us to realize that the great increase in knowledge in the world does not necessarily make us better or wiser ... A clever monkey may learn to drive a car, but he is hardly a safe chauffeur. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ~Gertrude Stein