Quotes About Knowledge

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.