Quotes About Knowledge

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

A person hears only what they understand.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.

He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

When scholars study a thing, they strive To kill it first, if its alive; Then they have the parts and they've lost the whole For the link that's missing was the living soul.