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Quotes About Knowledge

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
He who understands the wise is wise already.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
~ William Blake
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!
~ Ali Sina
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.
~ Eliza R. Snow
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
~ Charles Kettering
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
~ Robert South
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
~ Matt Chandler
Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
~ Akiane Kramarik
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
~ Robert Jordan
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
~ Anne Bradstreet
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
~ Konrad Adenauer
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
~ Cato the Elder
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Hermann Hesse