Quotes About Knowledge

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.