Quotes related to Proverbs 1:7
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
— George Bernard Shaw
You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?
— George Bernard Shaw
The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man — what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles! 'Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be — is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?
— George Eliot
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
— St. Augustine
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
— Samuel Johnson
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
— Mark Twain
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
— Aristotle
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
— Henri Nouwen
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
— John Milton