Quotes About Knowledge

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The wisest have the most authority.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

We asked ourselves the question: is there anything we wished we had known before heading out into the terrifying unknown that is the 'real world.' Turns out yeah. There's a lot we wish we had known.

We get our facts from Wiki-something or the other, which at the best of times, is generalised information gathered and submitted by anyone who wishes to!

Some incubators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, were started by successful entrepreneurs wishing to help the next generation learn from their experiences. Other programs, such as Viterbi Startup Garage and Austin Technology Incubator, were created by universities to help young entrepreneurs bridge the knowledge gap from student to funded company.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.