Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.