Quotes About Wisdom

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

for whenever men are right they are not young

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.