Quotes About Knowledge

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

Men are so superior about their Latin," said Mrs. Blair. "But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out of it somehow.

You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.