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Quotes About Knowledge

This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
~ H. L. Mencken
The farther you go, the less you know.
~ Laozi
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
~ Aristotle
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
~ Socrates
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
~ John Milton
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
~ Aristotle
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
~ Aristotle
It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
~ Philip Moeller
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
~ Laozi
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
~ John Ruskin
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
~ Juvenal
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.
~ Joseph Jastrow
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
~ Menander
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
~ Sophocles
Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.
~ Andy Stanley
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
~ Brian Tracy
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
~ Kate Horsley