Quotes About Wisdom

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.