Quotes About Knowledge

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

To free a man from error is to give, not take away

Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!

Obrar por ignorancia y obrar con ignorancia no son lo mísmo.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

All men by nature desire to know.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.

Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.

Again, those also who are ignorant of legal regulations which they are bound to know, and which are not hard to know, they chastise; and similarly in all other cases where neglect is thought to be the cause of the ignorance, under the notion that it was in their power to prevent their ignorance, because they might have paid attention.