Quotes About Knowledge

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.

I am convinced that there is no host in the world today who is both knowledgeable about fine things and more sovereign in power, whom we shall adorn with the glorious folds of song.

In heaven, learning is seeing; On earth, remembering.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Solon was under a delusion when he said that a man when he grows old may learn many things—for he can no more learn much than he can run much; youth is the time for any extraordinary toil.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

Science is nothing but perception.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.