Quotes About Wisdom

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.