Quotes About Knowledge

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused.

Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.

i knew him, Horatio

Hay más cosas en el cielo y en la Tierra, Horacio, de las que contempla tu filosofía.

I'll teach you differences.

You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!

As his own state and ours, 'tis to be chid—As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebel to judgment.

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.

He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear

Milikilah lebih banyak daripada yang anda tunjukkan. Berbicaralah tidak sebanyak yang anda ketahui.

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

Prov 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction

Such was the vainglory of a black boy who may have been alone among his race in bondage to have actually read pages from Sir Walter Scott and who knew the product of nine multiplied by nine, the name of the President of the United States, the existence of the continent of Asia, the capital of the state of New Jersey, and could spell words like Deuteronomy, Revelation, Nehemiah, Chesapeake, Southampton, and Shenandoah.

He'll not confess he knew, in the end, that the drama of death does not come into it – that some pain's too dull to be worthy of a romantic shroud. Courage could have brushed glamour over what little there was, but courage is ridiculous when the other person doesn't want to know.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

Love to learn—hate to be taught.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.