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Quotes About Knowledge

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
~ John Calvin
I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!
~ Solomon
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
~ Adyashanti
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
~ Stephen Covey
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
~ George Sarton
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
~ James Russell Lowell
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
~ Seneca the Younger
. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.
~ Vincent de Paul
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
~ George R.R. Martin
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
~ Frank Herbert
The head thinks. The heart knows.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
~ Laurence Sterne
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
~ Laurence Sterne
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
~ Samuel Johnson
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
~ Erica Jong
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
~ Mary Doria Russell
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
~ Tom Stoppard
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
~ John Calvin
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
~ John Milton
The primary wisdom is intuition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
~ Heraclitus