Quotes About Knowledge

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of the world? And if not, are there not thousands of abler pens labouring for its improvement?—It is so much pleasanter to please than to instruct—to play the companion rather than the preceptor.

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice, wilfully saps the foundation of his country's strength.

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

I seek truth in a book and not the subject.

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

But one of the true marks of a veteran is not how he catches a wave, but whether he knows when and how to get off the wave.

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools.

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Education is the mother of leadership.