Quotes About Knowledge

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.