Quotes About Knowledge

When the age is in, the wit is out.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

If youth knew; if age could.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

When I was your age, television was called books.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

You're fooling yourself if you argue with a fool - others may not know the difference.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.