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Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.
~ Irwin Kula
Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki
~ Richelle Mead
Epigrams delight us into wisdom.
~ Michael R. Burch
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
~ Neal Shusterman
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
~ William Butler Yeats
Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
~ John Templeton
In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.
~ Frederick Lenz
Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
~ Philip Larkin
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
~ Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
~ C. S. Lewis
Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
~ Magha
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
~ Francis Quarles
In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn
~ Megan McCafferty