Quotes About Knowledge

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.