Quotes Tagged "knowledge"

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!