Quotes About Knowledge

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn

He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Fools multiply folly.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Read much, but not many books!

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

one thing I know that is I know NOTHING

Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

an investment in education gives the best returns

Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!

To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light.

If what most men admire they would despise, It would look as if mankind were growing wise. He that would live in peace and ease Must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries