Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes (5423 Quotes)

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Interest in understanding the global wine market is keen, and globalization and its challenges were recurring topics during the Unified Symposium. However, overall there's a strong sense of optimism that the American grape and wine community is well positioned for success.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

To my knowledge, every member of management in this company believes that at the time we collectively followed appropriate practices for those option grants which affected all of our employees.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime

I think we should form a European influenza task force that brings together all our knowledge, so that if you have outbreaks in the future you could form delegations to work together with local experts in the area where it occurs.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

One thing I don't want to do is pass along the wealth before I pass along the knowledge. They have an opportunity, and I want them to fulfill it.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think with the bark off and you have the courage to do it.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Dr. Donne's verses are like the peace of God they pass all understanding.

We're in good shape pitching wise. We're hoping we can hit the ball better this year.

He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not comprehend it in knowledge.

John is going to focus on education of the community and fire district personnel. He as a great wealth of knowledge and experience that needs to be passed on to benefit the future of the fire department.

I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, all of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of Being and appreciate all I can share it with... the seamless interweaving of consciousness with each moment.

I ask for the Lord s spiritual wisdom, and the Lord s sublime sermon, through the Name of the Lord, I have come to know His value and His state.

We've staved it off for 15 years, but we have to pay the piper -- the time is here. To use money just to keep a dwindling school alive is not wise. I understand that it's difficult, but looking at it overall, it's not the board's fault enrollment in particular schools is going down, and it's not the board's fault that families have to move to Tracy to buy a house.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

My big weaknesses (in the past) have been a lack of preparation, a lack of knowledge and perhaps not enough confidence and afraid of mistakes. I need to stop trying to be perfect and just worry about becoming better.

It is a source of gratification to us all that we have been able to contribute a little to an understanding of the nucleus of the atom.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

I'm just going to try and execute the plays that they call, knowing that I have an understanding of how to manage a football game and what I need to do to help the team win. I'm not trying to make it into rocket science.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The fool is not always unfortunate, nor the wise man always successful yet never has a fool thorough enjoyment never was a wise man wholly unhappy.

To some extent, every church in the valley, to my knowledge, has gay and lesbian participation, and some are in a level of conflict,

We need to educate the public. We have posters up, but some patients have a hard time understanding. We have to educate.

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.

I thought maybe he would like me to do WILSON, and he was hoping that I wouldn't. It was several days before we came to an open understanding.

Sir Digby has a depth of knowledge, strategic mindset and an ability to communicate, qualities which are hard to beat in the business world.

It's either a lack of understanding or he doesn't care.

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.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

He's a bright, young, energetic, up-and-coming quality type manager. He has the baseball knowledge, but he also has great communicative skills.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

With the knowledge that we had... had we not hit that target and had bin Laden used chemical weapons in a terrorist attack, I don't know how we could have looked the American people in the face.

There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evill that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

And certainly We have brought them a Book which We have made clear with knowledge, a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe.

My understanding is that they (the government in Jakarta) have provided a battalion of forces from outside of East Timor. And that they were able to turn back an assault by militia groups against the U.N. people last night.

John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.