Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, / 15 Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Cowper.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. Locke.

Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory. Montaigne.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death. E. B. Browning.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Tennyson. 20

Knowledge comes from experience alone. Carlyle.

Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a possession—a property entirely our own. S. Smiles.

Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; / That makes some fools, this maketh none but wise. Quarles.

Knowledge exists to be imparted. Emerson.