Quotes About Wisdom

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.