Rza Quotes

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

There is nothing higher than reason.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.