Quotes About Knowledge

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

Everyone speaks of it, few know it.

An old head upon young shoulders.

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.