Quotes About Wisdom

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.