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Quotes About Wisdom

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
~ Benedetto Croce
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
~ Anatol Rapoport
I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.
~ Bob Sadino
If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.
~ Doug Phillips
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
~ Plato
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
~ Aristotle
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
~ Sai Baba
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
~ Idries Shah
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
~ Seneca the Younger
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
~ Ivan Panin
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
~ Max Heindel
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
~ Laozi
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
~ Dalai Lama
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
~ Napoleon Hill
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
~ Frederick Lenz
Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.
~ LL Cool J
Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.
~ Ivan Sutherland
Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Leonard Ravenhill