Quotes About Knowledge

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books.They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, such as the philosopher Herillus, who find in it the sovereign good and think it has the power to make us wise and happy.

I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Que sçay-je? (What do I know?)

If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.

Não há nada tão belo e legítimo quanto ser um homem de forma boa e adequada, nem conhecimento tão difícil de adquirir quanto o conhecimento de como viver esta vida bem e com naturalidade; e a mais bárbara de nossas doenças é desprezar o nosso ser.

For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.

for this present child of my brain, what I give it I give unconditionally and irrevocably, just as one does to the children of one's body; such little good as I have already done it is no longer mine to dispose of; it may know plenty of things which I know no longer, and remember things about me that I have forgotten; if the need arose to turn to it for help, it would be like borrowing from a stranger. It is richer than I am, yet I am wiser than it. Few devotees of poetry would not have

One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence is an inexcusable defect.

We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own. We are in this way much like him, who having need of fire, goes to a neighbour's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sits down to warm without remembering to carry any with him home.

Ezber bilmek, bilmek de?ildir; haf?zam?za emanet edilen her ?eyi saklamakt?r.

I had rather my son should learn in a tan-house to speak, than in the schools to prate.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1

You should study more to understand that you know little.

Estas empanadas de lugares comunes con que tantas personas economizan su estudio, apenas sirven para asuntos comunes, y solo para mostrarnos, no para conducirnos: fruto ridículo de la ciencia, que Sócrates censura tan graciosamente en Eutidemo. Yo

Não há uma única coisa tão vazia e carente quanto tu, que abraças o universo: és o escrutador sem conhecimento, o magistrado sem jurisdição e, ao final, o bobo da farsa.