Quotes about Knowledge
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
— George Washington
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
— Albert Schweitzer
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
— Anonymous
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
— John F. Kennedy
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
— Oscar Wilde
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.