Quotes About Wisdom

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Information is bad for knowledge.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.