Quotes about Wisdom
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
- RC Sproul
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- Francois Rabelais
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
- Gordon Hinckley
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
- David O. McKay
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
- Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
- George Bernard Shaw
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
- JC Ryle
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Samuel Johnson