Quotes About Knowledge

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy. He who knows these three things, knows how to cultivate his own character.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Study the past if you would define the future.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.

A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.

All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.

To defeat the enemy, we must know him first

It was a revelation as important as any other in its way – that expert men love their subject. Show them interest, show them fascination, and they see themselves reflected – and then they will move the world for you. The

I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.

A past is comforting because it' certain.

History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

It's not bad to know history, commander. Every generation don't need to overcome again already existing art. Especially if the hardest part of the work is already done.

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.