Quotes about Wisdom
The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
- Albert Einstein
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
- Albert Einstein
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
- Alain de Botton
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
- John Milton
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.
- Deepak Chopra
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
- James Madison
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.
- AW Tozer
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.
- Gordon Hinckley
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
- Francois Rabelais
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
- John Keats
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
- Brigham Young