Quotes About Knowledge

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.