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Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.
Sep 10, 2025
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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.
Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding. This will strengthen our commitment and provide the spiritual reserves to do our best in all situations.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
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.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.