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Quotes About Wisdom

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
~ Gioachino Rossini
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
~ Helen Keller
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
~ Audre Lorde
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
~ T. S. Eliot
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
~ Holbrook Jackson
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
~ Nhat Hanh
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
~ Louis Nizer
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
~ Laozi
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
~ Helen Keller
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is not knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
~ Reggie Watts
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
~ John Calvin
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
~ Chet Raymo
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
~ Mark Twain
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
~ Alan Watts
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.
~ Richard E. Byrd
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin