Quotes About Knowledge

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.