Quotes About Wisdom

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Knowledge is limited.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Knowledge is of more value than gold

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.