Quotes About Wisdom

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

One cannot know everything.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.