Quotes About Knowledge

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do know that ain't so.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Love built on just emotion, without knowledge and virtue, is a continual shipwreck.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. - 1 John 4:8

Much of the healing comes not from the wisdom and knowledge used, but from the Love expressed in them.