Wisdom Quotes

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

~ John F. Kennedy

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

~ Plato

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

~ Hermann Hesse

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

~ Clifford Stoll

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

~ Lord Byron

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

~ A. R. Rahman

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.

~ Avery Brooks

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

~ Jay Griffiths

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

~ Venerable Bede

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

~ Khalil Gibran

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

~ William Cowper

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

~ Janet Jackson

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

~ Victoria Osteen

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.

~ Maimonides

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

~ Shakti Gawain

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

~ T. S. Eliot

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

~ F. Sionil José

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

~ Martin H. Fischer

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

~ Brigham Young

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

~ Stephen Gardiner

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

~ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

~ Will Durant

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

~ William Hazlitt

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

~ Joshua Foer

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

~ Igor Stravinsky

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

~ Barry White

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

~ William Dunbar

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

~ Confucius

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

~ Abigail Adams

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

~ Joseph Roux

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

~ Brigitte Bardot

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

~ Isaac D'israeli

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

~ Michael Leunig