Quotes about Wisdom
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
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson