Quotes About Wisdom

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.