Quotes About Knowledge

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.