Quotes About Knowledge

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

Truth is independent of facts always.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

I'm too old to know everything

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

not many follicles among the oracles.

that all good math had come from the Arabs, everyone knew that.

Men scorn what they don't understand.

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