Quotes About Knowledge

It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." —George Santayana Every

If everything I perceive is based on what I already know, how will I ever perceive anything new? If I never perceive anything new, how will I change? How will I grow?

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.

Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!

Vay haline, bilmemesi gerekeni bilmek isteyenin ve gücünü aÅŸan bir iÅŸe giriÅŸen gözüpek kiÅŸinin.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Many things can be cured with experience and training. Stupidity is not one of them. - Leon

There are only two kinds of investors: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third kind: those who know they don't know, but whose livelihoods depend on appearing to know.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit—general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?Or Love in a golden bowl?

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.