Quotes About Knowledge

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.

As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom. - Tiresias to Pentheus

And I do not fear to say that those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things Are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Sentir respeto es sabiduría.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

This thy wit hath no wit.

Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)

Wisdom lies in clarity.

Cualquiera que le diga palabras sabias a un ignorante parecerá que no está en su sano juicio (Las Bacantes, 409 aC)

But I am unadorned with phrase to speak to the multitude, but to speak to my equals and to a few, more expert: but this also has consistency in it; for those, who are of no account among the wise, are more fitted to speak before the rabble.

Had I succeeded, I'd be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.