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Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~ Sidney Hook
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
~ Dean Ornish
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
~ Xenophanes
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
~ James Gleick
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
~ Sophocles
We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~ King Solomon
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~ Plutarch
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~ James Prescott Joule
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
~ A. R. Rahman
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
~ William Cowper
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang, ' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
~ F. Sionil Jose
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~ Sacha Guitry
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
~ Roger Ascham
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
~ Ray Lewis
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
~ Malala Yousafzai
World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.
~ Subramanya Bharathi
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
~ Dorothy Parker
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
~ Bill Mollison
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
~ Virginia Woolf