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Quotes About Wisdom

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
~ Albert Einstein
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
~ Aldous Huxley
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.
~ Michael J. Fox
Stay away from a companionship that does not benefit you with knowledge.
~ Muadh ibn Jabal
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
~ Peter Senge
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.
~ James Dewar
I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
~ Socrates
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
~ Terence McKenna
When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.
~ Paul Smith
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
~ Hugh Nibley
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
~ James Gleick
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
~ Friedrich Schiller
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
~ Ramakrishna
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
~ Michael Polanyi
Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
~ Bruce Lee
Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
~ Chanakya
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
~ Charles Olson