Quotes About Knowledge

The more you know the less you need to say.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.