Quotes About Knowledge

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I would live to study, not study to live.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.