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Quotes About Wisdom

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!
~ Louis Farrakhan
In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
~ Plato
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
~ Plato
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
~ Samuel Johnson
To hear is one thing, to know is another.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few
~ Aristotle
Knowledge itself is power
~ Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
~ Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
~ Samuel Johnson
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
~ Socrates
All men by nature desire to know.
~ Aristotle
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
~ Francis Bacon
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
~ Plato, The Republic
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
~ Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.
~ Al Capp
Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.
~ Grace Willows