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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.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

I am a student of world religion, so to me, it is hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.