Quotes About Knowledge

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.