Wisdom,
Knowlege
and
Belief


Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living;
The other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey


Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Godfried Bomans


We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark


To know is to know that you know nothing.  That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius


Imagination is more than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein


It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein


The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein


Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


In a philisophical dispute, he gains the most who is defeated, since he learns the most.

Epicurus


Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.  Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm S. Forbes


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei


Wonder, rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

Abraham Beschel


It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the province of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James


Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy


The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips


Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato


Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Plato


Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato


To educate a man in the mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt


People who know a little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jaques Rousseau


It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber


The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain


Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde


When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.

A Zen saying


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