Quotes about Knowledge

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

We are assaulted by so much information each day that it's easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we're often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We're taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.