True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.
Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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