Quotes About Knowledge

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

I only know that I know nothing

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!