Some Quotes on Knowledge and Wisdom

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Some Quotes on Wisdom:

 

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles

 

To be a philosopher is to recognize the True, to desire the Beautiful,

to establish the Good. This is wisdom; all else is folly. George

Santayana

 

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the

audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

 

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins

 

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often

becomes the height of wisdom in another. -Adlai Stevenson

 

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. C.

C. Colton

 

The ancient Masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was

unfathomable. There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is

their appearance.

 

Some Quotes on Knowledge and Wisdom

 

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

simplification. Martin H. Fischer

 

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. Leo Buscaglia

 

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and

finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.

 

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a

responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we

are as ethical creatures. J. Bronowski

 

To know that you know what you know, and that you do not know what you

do not know, that is true wisdom. Confucious

 

I don't think it would have all got me down quite so much if just

once in a while- just once in a while- there was at least some polite

little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom,

and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time. J.D.

Salinger, Franny & Zooey

 

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Anon

 

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the

other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey

 

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

 

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates (470-399

B.C.)

 

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd

have preferred to talk. Doug Larson

 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William

James

 

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is

the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin

 

Source: Various Books and Websites.