Quotes About Knowledge

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.