Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes (5423 Quotes)




    Its kind of an understanding between Brady and the receivers that being taller just creates an advantage in different situations. Theres times you can be covered but have a few inches on the guy, (and it) pretty much equals being uncovered.

    I don't think anybody that knows me would think that I'm so understanding. Most people say I'm too pushy, I'm too aggressive, I'm too assertive, I'm too confrontational. That I ask for too much. I've never been considered patient, or even conciliatory in most instances. But I don't think anything happens in a short period of time. Particularly when you're talking about dealing with Congress and government. It just doesn't happen.



    'One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge.' What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.

    I think it's a wise pick. Dave is a Pitt guy. Dave has a commitment to this university. The excitement created since Dave came probably hasn't happened in, what, 20 years

    Our thesis is that children love learning, naturally, but if they're not educated right, they'll come to dislike it. We use a 'classical' model of education which focuses on the love of learning as opposed to just acquiring a body of knowledge.


    That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.


    Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

    Intellect and industry are never incompatible. There is more wisdom, and will be more benefit, in combining them than scholars like to believe, or than the common world imagine life has time enough for both, and its happiness will be increased by the union.

    It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God easy to entangle the soul in a network of petty observances, difficult to yield the obedience of an enlightened heart easy to be haughtily exclusive, difficult to be humbly spiritual easy to be an ascetic or a formalist, difficult to be pure, and loving, and wise, and free easy to be a Pharisee, difficult to be a disciple very easy to embrace a self-satisfying and sanctimonious system of rabbinical observances, very difficult to love God with all the heart, and all the might, and all the soul, and all the strength.




    What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom Knowledge is gained by gathering data, whereas, Wisdom is earned by going through actual life experiences.

    Withal I did infer your lineaments,
    Being the right idea of your father,
    Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
    Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
    Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
    Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
    Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
    Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

    Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

    If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.




    Our Lord and raise up in them an Apostle from among them who shall recite to them Thy communications and teach them the Book and the wisdom, and purify them surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.


    Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.



    We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

    You need to understand what you are buying, and why, how it will affect your business, and what the potential risks are. That detailed understanding may be beyond the scope of a procurement department.


    Dr. Pellegrino teaches by example and witnesses to the virtues he prizes in health care. He will bring to the Council wisdom, respectful discourse and a strong commitment to making health care work for the most vulnerable. All of us here at the Center have been receiving congratulatory phone calls and e-mail messages all week from friends and colleagues around the world.


    Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

    A lot of the distinctions that are taken as conventional wisdom, or even gospel, don't necessarily make a lot of sense to us. For example, growth stocks can be undervalued, and value stocks can be overvalued.





    I have to give that to lack of knowledge of the golf course. For some reason, I think that right side that you can get to that far bunker out there. I'm not long enough to get to that bunker. I tried to take a little more off than I can chew. I thought it was going to fly into the bunker and it didn't even get close.


    If these allegations turn out to be true, the crucial thing is whether these flights landed in the member states with or without the knowledge and approval of the authorities.

    It is by discourse that men associate and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.



    During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

    I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.


    We believe in cross-training our people so that they have an understanding of what an issue is, and what goes on in another department, ... And we think that this cross-training not only makes them perform their job better, but also gives them a company-wide view.



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