Quotes About Knowledge

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The work will teach you how to do it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.