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Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
~ George Herbert
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
~ William Hazlitt
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
~ Dov Davidoff
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
~ Franz Grillparzer
All our knowledge originates in opinion.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is structured in consciousness
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
~ Frederick Lenz
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!
~ Ted Nicholas
The goal is to know how not-to-know.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
~ Phyllis Bottome
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
~ Alexander Pope
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
~ William Congreve
Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
~ Laozi
My final destination is my complete knowledge of God.
~ Kedar Joshi
Knowledge is no burden.
~ George Herbert
Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
~ Frank Delaney
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.
~ Arthur Koestler
Knowledge often spoils devotion.
~ Kate Horsley
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.
~ H. L. Mencken
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
~ George Russell