Quotes About Knowledge

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to facts, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man's right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, 'that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,' that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.

For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

If I had read as much as other men had, I would have known as little.

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

All too often high-income-producing UAWs spend countless hours studying the market—but not the stock market. They can tell you the names of the top auto dealers, but not the top investment advisors. They can tell you how to shop and spend. But they can't tell you how to invest. They know the styles, prices, and availability at various car dealers. But they know little or nothing about the various values of equity market offerings. As

Fawn, build your self-esteem, your pride, your independence, with what you know, not with what you own. Avoid debt.

What do professionals sell? Not coal, not paint, not even pizza. What they sell most of all is their intellect.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the one with experience ends up with the money and the one with money leaves with experience.

being well educated has certain economic drawbacks. Victor's

Read Sternberg's Successful Intelligence.

you would be wise to use your expertise to help you make your investments. If you're well versed in antiques, why not leverage your knowledge? You

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.