Quotes About Knowledge

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.