Quotes About Knowledge

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.