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Quotes About Wisdom

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.
~ Erik Naggum
To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
~ Laozi
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
~ Huston Smith
I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.
~ John Hodgman
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
~ Lucian
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
~ John Webster
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
~ Plutarch
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
~ John Adams
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
~ John Darnielle
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.
~ John Keats
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.
~ Deepak Chopra
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
~ Andre Gide
As I've gotten older, and now that my kids are starting to do what they do, I am now really focusing on sharing my knowledge and insights with them to help guide them on their journeys.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
~ John Adams
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz
You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.
~ Karl Pilkington
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
~ Warren G. Bennis