Quotes on Knowledge And Wisdom

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.