Quotes About Wisdom

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.