Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Knowledge always liberates.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.