Quotes About Knowledge

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Years teach us more than books.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.