Top 96 Wise And Knowledge Quotes
#1. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).
Josephine Akhagbeme
#2. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal
#3. They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same.
Nikki Rowe
#4. Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.
Sean Wilsey
#5. All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
Matthew Arnold
#6. Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#8. The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.
Anonymous
#9. Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#11. I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#12. He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
#13. Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.
Gopi Krishna
#16. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#17. You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.
Michael Bassey
#18. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#19. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Holmes
#20. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#21. When I was young, I thought I was a very smart and learned person.
But now, the more I read, the more I learn, the more I think, the humbler I become.
Shon Mehta
#22. An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Anonymous
#23. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#25. A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.
Canibus
#26. 42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.
Ramana Maharshi
#27. power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#28. I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
#30. And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
John Sergeant Wise
#31. And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.
Rajneesh
#33. Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Since they are immortal, they immortalize. You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world of darkness. Judgement and strength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian
#34. Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O'Rourke
#35. We'd made the wise choice, done the right thing. I had to believe that logic would bring comfort in time. Tonight, there was just this too-quiet room, the ache of loss, knowledge deep and final as the tolling of a bell: Something good has gone.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales ...
Honeya
#37. We may have an education, but we are living on a bride between knowledge and wisdom. We think of ourselves as educated, but we may not always be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#38. The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
Starhawk
#39. What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
Andrew Harvey
#40. A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#41. We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.
Thomas Carlyle
#42. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God, - not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.
James McCosh
#44. People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight.
Liane Moriarty
#45. They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge? ... know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#46. Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Take your time to find and understand what you don't know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that shows you something you don't know, but something you don't know!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. We must praise God or live in unreality and poverty. We cannot merely believe in our minds that he is loving or wise or great. We must praise him for those things - and praise him to others - if we are to move beyond abstract knowledge to heart-changing engagement.
Timothy Keller
#49. Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander
#50. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
Ajahn Chah
#51. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Frederick Lenz
#52. 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
Dorothea Dix
#53. Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.
Mikhail Naimy
#54. Liars corrupt knowledge,
and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair
Charles Blair
#57. Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!
Deyth Banger
#59. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!
What joy it brings to every heart!
What a rare and precious chance
To share all knowledge with the wise,
And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!"
- Book of Secrets I, 1
Robert Delgado
#61. 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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded.
Lloyd Alexander
#64. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
#66. But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
M. Scott Peck
#67. The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#68. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
Jim Butcher
#69. A little hope and love now and then
Wise and beautiful, more than often.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.
John C. Wright
#72. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
#73. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
Jim Butcher
#74. Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
#75. This self-knowledge is the foundation for becoming the wise, compassionate, and peaceful person you have the capacity to become. So how do we do deeply know ourselves?
Cindy Wigglesworth
#76. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.
Michael Meade
#77. I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.
Future
#80. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#81. Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
Ernst Gombrich
#82. The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge" -Proverbs 18:15 (KJV)
Jillian Hall
#83. When Knowledge Went North (excerpt)
As for us,
We came nowhere near being right,
Since we have the answers.
"For he who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know"
And "The Wise Man gives instruction
Without the use of speech.
Thomas Merton
#84. He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#85. You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
Alfred North Whitehead
#86. No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#87. It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Izaak Walton
#88. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
#89. People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past fifty years. Because of this, church is becoming less of a possessor of knowledge (commodity) and more a communal hub.
Justin Wise
#90. God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Khalil Gibran
#91. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#92. A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.
Rex Reed
#93. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
#94. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
