Quotes About Knowledge

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.