Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.