Quotes about Knowledge

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.