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Quotes About Knowledge

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
~ John F. Kennedy
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
~ James Gleick
Life is a festival only to the wise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.
~ Dan Inosanto
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
~ Francis Bacon
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
~ George Berkeley
I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
~ Judi Dench
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
~ Adoniram Judson
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
~ William Stafford
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
~ William Shakespeare
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
~ Tony Abbott
Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
~ John Earl Shoaff
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
~ Joseph Priestley
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
~ Socrates
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
~ Plato
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
~ Hugh Jackman
Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
~ Marsilio Ficino
Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.
~ Huineng
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
~ Georges St-Pierre
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
~ Thomas Carlyle