Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.