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Quotes About Knowledge

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
~ Ben Jonson
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
~ Heraclitus
By suffering comes wisdom.
~ Aeschylus
No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.
~ Steve Coogan
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
~ Confucius
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
~ James Clavell
My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.
~ Rick Riordan
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
~ Margaret of Valois
We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.
~ Louise Hay
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
~ David McCullough
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
~ Randy Pausch
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
~ John Milton
You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.
~ John Colton
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
He who knows that he is free is free; he who knows that he is bound is bound. What is the end and aim of life? None, because I know that I am the Infinite.
~ Swami Vivekananda