Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

With knowledge grows doubt.

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.