Quotes About Knowledge

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.