Quotes About Knowledge

What should they know of England, who only England know?

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."

Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell, But they never farmed, so how can they tell?

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

A fool's head never whitens.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

You men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are the fools.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.