“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.”
Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny
“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.”
“What we do not understand we do not possess.”
Source: The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.”
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Source: Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”
Source: The comedies of Aristophanes