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Quotes About Wisdom

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
Those who know nothing must believe everything.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
~ Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
~ William Ellery Channing
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
~ Hosea Ballou
Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
~ Italo Calvino
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.
~ Jacques Pepin
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
~ Tom Stoppard
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
~ Margaret Mead
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
~ Kim Cattrall
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
~ Garrett Hardin
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
~ Ed Koch
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
~ Pope John Paul II
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
~ E. W. Howe
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
~ Richard Holbrooke
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
~ John Calvin
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
~ Zhuangzi