Quotes About Knowledge

fools believe in foolish things.

Jon Snow, you know nothing. You don't go in with clothes.

He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

I did not know." "You should have.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

The wisest man has something yet to learn.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy