Knowledge Wisdom Quotes

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.406, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

  Catherine the Great

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

  David Starr Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Use

  "In a World Of...friends, Foes & Fools". Book by James Merritt, 2008.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Clever

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Learning, Sleep

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

  Doug Larson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Decision

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