Quotes About Knowledge

Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

There is nothing in all nature without its reason, he wrote. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude." "Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Learning never exhaust the mind

Oricine îÅŸi susÈ›ine un argument prin apelarea la o autoritate nu îÅŸi foloseÅŸte inteligenÈ›a; el îÅŸi utilizeaz? doar memoria.

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

L'esperienza è il solo insegnante in cui possiamo confidare.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

Practice must always be founded on sound theory.

It would not go away because it was my thought. It is not death that is terrible, but the knowledge of it: it would be utterly impossible to live if a man could know exactly and definitely the day and hour of his death.

There's nothing more political than epistemological struggles.

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?

You say, "How can I increase my faith?" Know more about God. The secret of having more faith is to know more about God. Faith has a direct relationship with our knowledge of God.

People eulogize Smith Wigglesworth. They call him a prophet of faith. But what they don't know is he sat almost all day, every day, reading the Bible, praying, and ministering to people. If you had asked him to do something else, he would have thought you were crazy. His knowledge of God was tremendous.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.