Quotes About Wisdom

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.