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Quotes About Wisdom

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
~ Aristotle
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
~ Paracelsus
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
~ Abu Hurairah
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
~ Hippocrates
All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
~ Mao Zedong
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
~ KRS-One
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
~ William Penn
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
~ Ernest Shackleton
The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
~ Uta Hagen
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
~ George W Truett
To build up a future, you have to know the past.
~ Otto Frank
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
~ James Madison
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.
~ Klemens von Metternich
The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.
~ Elijah Muhammad
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
~ Zhuangzi
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
~ Hector Hugh Munro