Quotes about Knowledge

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.