Quotes about Knowledge
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
— Oscar Wilde
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
— Oscar Wilde
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
— Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
— Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
— Oscar Wilde
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.
— Oscar Wilde
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
— Oscar Wilde
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
— Oscar Wilde
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
— Confucius
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
— Confucius
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.
— Confucius
There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.
— Confucius