Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge comes through suffering.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.

The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.

Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.