Quotes About Knowledge

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them

And tell me, who will be more successful in life? The kid who knows all the chemical formulae or the one who knows teamwork, passion, discipline and focus?

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument, an exchange of ignorance.

The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.

To teach is to learn twice.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

And it is often in the past that the secret of the future lies!

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

A well-disposed research librarian is a writer's best friend, as essential as ink.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

Never trust anyone whose television is larger than their bookshelf.

...the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS...