Quotes About Wisdom

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Knowledge is almost annoying.