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Quotes About Knowledge

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
~ Laozi
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.
~ Greg Koukl
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
~ John Calvin
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
~ Confucius
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
~ George Santayana
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~ Brigham Young
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Cleverness is not wisdom.
~ Euripides, The Bacchae
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
~ Socrates
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
~ Paul MacCready
Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.
~ Darrelle Revis
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
~ Laozi
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow oneÂ's own advice.
~ Sam Harris
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
~ Masayoshi Son
Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~ Morihei Ueshiba