Quotes About Wisdom

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency." -R. Daneel Olivaw

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

All my knowledge comes from research.