Quotes About Wisdom

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.