Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the World but continual drinking of Knowledge - I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world

In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

The more I have known the more have I lov'd.

the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation

Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.

What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

There is nothing reliable to be learned about making money. If there were, study would be intense and everyone with a positive IQ would be rich.

Scholars gather in scholarly assemblages to hear in elegant statement what all have heard before. Again, it is not a negligible rite, for its purpose is not to convey knowledge but to beatify learning and the learned.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

La qualifica più comune di chi fa previsioni in campo economico consiste non già nel sapere, ma nel non sapere di non sapere. Il suo grande vantaggio è che tutte le previsioni, giusta o sbagliate che siano, vengono rapidamente dimenticate.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.

semakin banyak yang kau lihat, semakin sedikit yang kau tahu.

It's no stretch to say, then, that Thucydides coaches all who read him. For as his greatest modern interpreter (himself a sometime coach) has gently reminded us, the Greeks, despite their antiquity, "may have believed things we have either forgotten or never known; and we must keep open the possibility that in some respects, at least, they were wiser than we.

existiera y nuestro terapeuta fue Tucídides.