Quotes About Wisdom

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.