Quotes about Knowledge

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

The value of education is among the greatest of all human values.

Her mind was like her room, in which lights advanced and retreated, came pirouetting and stepping delicately, spread their tails, pecked their way; and then her whole being was suffused, like the room again, with a cloud of some profound knowledge, some unspoken regret, and then she was full of locked drawers, stuffed with letters, like her cabinets.

To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.

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.