Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge—a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place— Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

Jahangir was, after all, an enormously sensitive, curious and intelligent man: observant of the world around him and a keen collector of its curiosities, from Venetian swords and globes to Safavid silks, jade pebbles and even narwhal teeth. A proud inheritor of the Indo-Mughal tradition of aesthetics and knowledge, as well as maintaining the Empire and commissioning great works of art, he took an

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.