Quotes About Knowledge

and you just keep saying, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, because you've heard all this before, you've already been where he's been, because he's telling you about a town you know like the back of your hand.

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..

Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to look down on the valley, so one has to be a prince to get to know the character of a people and a man of the people to know the character of a prince.

He was not a scholar, and he did not have the temperament of one who finds knowledge an end in itself.

I have not found among my possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as, the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs and a continual study of antiquity, which, having reflected upon it with great and prolonged diligence, I now send, digested into a little volume, to your Magnificence.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

men ought ever to desire to be served by one who has reaped experience at the expense of others.

Dante says:  Knowledge doth come of learning well retained,   Unfruitful else

li quali non credano in verità le cose nuove, se non ne veggono nata una ferma esperienza.

Ci sono uomini che sanno tutto, peccato che questo è tutto quello che sanno.

Si se conocen anticipadamente los males que pueden después manifestarse, lo que no concede el cielo más que a un hombre sabio y bien prevenido, quedan curados muy pronto. Pero cuando, por no haberlos conocido, se les deja tomar un incremento tal que llega a noticia de todo el mundo, no hay ya arbitrio que los remedie.

Todos ven lo que pareces ser, mas pocos saben lo que eres.

Tuzaklar? tan?mak için bir tilki, kurtlar? korkutmak için de aslan olmak gerekir.

Nas?l manzara resmi yapanlar, daÄŸlar?n ve yüksek yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için ovada alçak bir konumda duruyor ve alçak yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için daÄŸlar?n tepesine ç?k?yorlarsa, ayn? ÅŸekilde, halklar?n yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için prens olmak ve prenslerin yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için de halktan birisi olmak gerekir.

I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through

For the price of a few battleships, we could give you a healthy nation. We have the knowledge, the skill, the material resources; but those in power prefer to use them for destroying their competitors and safeguarding their own profits.

expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

in Hebrew, where the word for "old," zaken, is an acronym formed from the expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.

Once you had a solid base and sufficient knowledge, and respect for the essential facts and real needs of life, nothing rivaled careful observation and contemplation fired by a passion for the invention of new means for experiencing life.

As well as being the banners and ensigns of human groups, languages guard our memories too. Even when they are unwritten, languages are the most powerful tools we have to conserve our past knowledge, transmitting it, ever and anon, to the next generation. Any human language binds together a human community, by giving it a network of communication; but it also dramatizes it, providing the means to tell, and to remember, its stories.

Recall is an act of disciplined reimagination, and the remote past may be beyond anyone's ken.

I've been doing this a long time, and I've come to learn that predictions don't mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there's nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that's not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.