Quotes About Wisdom

All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience, and patience.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

The value of new knowledge is greater to the person who already knows a lot. The more effort you put in, the more you get back per unit of effort. Knowledge violates the law of diminishing returns.

In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

Knowledge increases by sharing but not by saving.

Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge acquired through those experiences.

Research; the quest for in-depth knowledge and wisdom.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Wisdom > knowledge > information > data.

A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons. Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy. A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion. A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors.

Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.