Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.