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Quotes About Knowledge

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
~ Lauren Kate, Rapture
There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
~ Chanakya
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
~ Jonas Salk
English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
~ Winston Churchill
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
~ William Saroyan
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
~ Socrates
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
~ Immanuel Kant
Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom
~ Dennis Prager
Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.
~ Hermann Hesse
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
~ Aristotle
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
~ John Calvin
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.
~ William Finnegan
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
~ Larry McMurtry
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.
~ Darold Treffert
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
~ Thomas Paine
Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
~ Gautama Buddha
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Your wisdom should be without pride.
~ Saint Augustine
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
~ Bliss Perry