Quotes About Wisdom

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.