Quotes about Knowledge
Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
— William Wordsworth
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
— Winston Churchill
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
— Woodrow Wilson
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
— David Wilkerson
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
— Ben Carson
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
— Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
— Frederick Douglass
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
— Joseph Heller
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
— Albert Camus