Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.