Quotes About Knowledge

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?