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Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes
The most loved quotes on wisdom & knowledge, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Kindness is wisdom.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Wisdom is important in every man's life.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge is power.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.