Quotes About Knowledge

The best doctor gives least Medicine.

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!

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

my desire being to gain knowledge at the same time that I improv'd in virtue, and considering that in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn

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

Locke On Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking, by Messrs. du Port Royal.

If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

to take upon us by inoculation when in health a disorder of which some die, requires great clearness of knowledge that it is our duty to do so.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find .................for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion ............................

which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths.

the rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

If the reason people invest is to make money, then in seeking advice they are asking others to tell them how to make money. That idea has some element of naïveté.

The schoolteacher asks Billy Bob: "If you have 12 sheeps and one jumps over the fence, how many sheeps do you have left?" Billy Bob answers, "None." "Well" says the teacher, "you sure don't know your subtraction." "Maybe not," Billy Bob replies, "but i darn sure know my sheeps.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the Scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and one sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way the scholars can appear superior, and will not likely be suspected of not knowing something. After all, from the scholarly point of view, it's practically a crime to not know everything.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is something more, and that something more is what life is really about.

Knowledge doesn't really care. Wisdom does.

In other words, knowledge and experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.