To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. Saint Augustine
The key to why things change is the key to everything. How easy is it for knowledge to spread? James Burke, Connections s1e10: Yesterday, Tomorrow & You, BBC 1978
Scientific knowledge is hard to take because it removes the reassuring crutches of opinion and ideology. ibid.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. John Charles Polanyi
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge
To acquire knowledge one must study; but to acquire wisdom one must observe. Marilyn Vos Savant
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. Job 13:2
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. Job 21:22
Who is this that darkened counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. Proverbs 10:13&14
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly. Proverbs 13:16
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. Proverbs 14:7&18
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. Proverbs 15:7&14
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. Proverbs 18:1&2
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge. Proverbs 18:15
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. Proverbs 24:3&5-7&14&23
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:18
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:13
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Daniel 12:4
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. I Corinthians 8:1&2
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. Hosea 4:3-5&9&10
Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 3:25
Lo! ye are those who argue about that whereof ye have some knowledge: Why then argue ye concerning that whereof ye have no knowledge? Allah knoweth. Ye know not. Koran 3:66
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge. Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, 1951
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold
I’d like to know if there’s a good way of beating a bank. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot 1974 starring Jeff Bridges & Clint Eastwood & Geoffrey Lewis & Catherine Bach & Garey Busey & Jack Dodgson & Gene Elman & Burton Gilliam & Roy Jenson & Claudia Lennear & Vic Tayback & Dub Taylor & Bill McKinney & Gregorey Walcott et al, director Michael Cimino
Melvin Hausner recalled: ‘He was always buried in thought. He’d sit in the common room by himself. He could easily walk by you and not see you. He was always muttering to himself. Always whistling. Nash was always thinking ... If he was lying on a table, it was because he was thinking. Just thinking. You see could see he was thinking.
He seemed to be enjoying himself immensely. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius. He was obsessed with learning from scratch. Milnor recalled, ‘It was as if he wanted to rediscover; for himself, three hundred years of mathematics.’ Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Perhaps we should be examining what we think we know. Game of Thrones s7e3: The Queen’s Justice, Dragon-Queen to Jon Snow, HBO 2017