Quotes About Wisdom

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Knowledge is pain that's why it hurts to know.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.