Top 100 Wise Knowledge Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge" -Proverbs 18:15 (KJV)
Jillian Hall
#4. 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
#5. He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#6. You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
Alfred North Whitehead
#7. Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
William Penn
#8. Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.
Idries Shah
#9. Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
#10. It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Izaak Walton
#11. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
#12. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#13. At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.
Diane Keaton
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Knowledge is an intellectual art.
Wisdom is a spiritual discipline.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#19. It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.
Mary Stewart
#20. The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. 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
#22. The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed!
Anonymous
#24. Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Horace
#25. 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
#27. We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.
Canibus
#31. 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
#32. It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge, Ian.
Diana Gabaldon
#34. Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Laozi
#35. No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
Alethea Kontis
#40. By studying yesterday, you will understand today.
Suzy Kassem
#41. The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Baltasar Gracian
#43. Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.
Lord Byron
#45. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.
Bram Stoker
#46. Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.
Carew Papritz
#47. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther
#48. Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise
Beth Moore
#49. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Schooling gives you knowledge,
but education makes you wise.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen ... You flatter me by asking my opinion.
Gene Wolfe
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
#65. 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.
#66. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.
Joan D. Vinge
#67. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#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
#74. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Suzy Kassem
#79. To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.
Will Advise
#80. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.
Karen Salmansohn
#82. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
#83. We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel De Montaigne
#85. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Debasish Mridha
#86. 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
#87. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Frederick Lenz
#88. '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
#91. Liars corrupt knowledge,
and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.
Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
#93. Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding, but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod. 14 Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster.
Anonymous
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
#100. An idiot will take punishment without gaining knowledge but the. Wise will improve himself through punishment.
Larry Dotson
