Quotes About Wisdom

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Words are the indices of the mind.

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded — and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

But what is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.

A fine layer of dust must settle on literature before it's truly complete.

Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Literature lights the ages.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.