56 Quotes About Knowledge And Wisdom

In a world saturated with information, the value of knowledge and wisdom shines brighter than ever. These timeless guides offer us insights that transcend the daily chaos, helping us navigate life's complexities with grace and assurance. Whether you're seeking inspiration for personal growth, a fresh perspective on a challenging situation, or simply a deeper understanding of the human experience, quotes about knowledge and wisdom serve as a beacon. In this carefully curated collection, we present 56 powerful quotes that encapsulate the essence of learning and insight. Join us on a journey through the minds of thinkers, philosophers, and leaders who understand that true wisdom is the art of knowing what to do next.

1. “Be not another, if you can be yourself. ” - Paracelsus

2. “There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.” - Ayn Rand

3. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” - Neil Gaiman

4. “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.” - Rick Riordan

5. “To really know someone is to havelove and hated him in turn.” - Marcel Jouhandeau

6. “But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.” - Laurence Gonzales

7. “Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.” - Robin McKinley

8. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” - Hayley Williams

9. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” - Steve Maraboli

10. “A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first.” - Rae Armantrout

11. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” - Leonardo da Vinci

12. “What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

13. “There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

14. “The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.” - Erich Segal

15. “You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.” - Stephen King

16. “There’s always someone who knows something.” - Stephen King

17. “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.” - A.A. Milne

18. “And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.” - Richard Mitchell

19. “Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.” - Raven Symone

20. “We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.” - Cecelia Ahern

21. “We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.” - Jude Morgan

22. “The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.” - Henry Hazlitt

23. “I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.” - Kurt Vonnegut

24. “Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” - Francois Lelord

25. “... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.” - Nell Freudenberger

26. “If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.” - Junot Diaz

27. “For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.” - Carson McCullers

28. “The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.” - James Merritt

29. “Only ignorance excuses stupidity” - Nalini Singh

30. “Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.” - Suzanne Collins

31. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Plato

32. “You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.” - Libba Bray

33. “Awkward.That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.” - Markus Zusak

34. “If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.” - Jamie Leanne Gaines

35. “How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing. ” - Shawna Lemay

36. “Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.” - James Salter

37. “The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is 'another way' of knowing something. Yet, they have no physical/organic brain?"~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

38. “When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference.” - Dan Simmons

39. “..Imam Ali [A]..'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord” - DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI

40. “Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org” - Allan Rufus

41. “She watches Simon's profile as he drives, concentrating, but he keeps turning to her, and every time he does so, he is smiling. He doesn't seem to care, and she wonders if, actually, he wants to be caught. In some ways she does, because she knows, already, albeit crazily swiftly, that she wants more of this man, that once was never, ever going to be enough.” - Sarah Rayner

42. “You don't know shits I through in my life. You don't know how many times I've fucked. You don't know me.” - Francisca Olivia

43. “To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most. If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.” - A.W. Tozer

46. “But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.” - John Lanchester

47. “Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.” - Richard Rohr

48. “Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.” - David Almond

49. “But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.” - Lauren Oliver

50. “The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.” - Toba Beta

51. “Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential.” - Bryant McGill

52. “I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.” - Suzanne Palmieri

53. “There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen.” - Stephenie Meyer

54. “To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.” - Max Brooks

55. “Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.” - Bryant McGill

56. “A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.” - Samantha Young