Quotes about Wisdom
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
— Euripides
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
— Jonathan Edwards
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
— Confucius
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
— Maya Angelou
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
— Laurence Sterne
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
— Thomas Watson
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
— Hannah More
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
— Albert Camus
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
— Margaret Mead