Knowledge
Quotes - Learning does not make one Learned
“Learning
does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who
have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
―
Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
“What
is now proved was once only imagined.”
―
William Blake
“Ignorance
more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know
little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that
problem will never be solved by science.”
―
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
“I
do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove
that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of
Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is
more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable
knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
―
Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and
Related Subjects
“Few
people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the
prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming
such opinions."
(Essay
to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
―
Albert Einstein
“Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers.”
―
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Science
is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
―
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's
Greatest Philosophers
“It
was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“The
eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye
and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
―
Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart
“The
hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there
is no cat.”
―
Confucius
“A
little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
―
Alexander Pope
“A
woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should
conceal it as well as she can.”
―
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I
can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
―
Isaac Newton
“Unless
you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never
grow.”
―
Ronald E. Osborn
“Knowing
is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
―
Johann wolfgang von Goethe
“The
time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light
things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to
the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And
so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There
will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know
things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages
still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
―
Seneca, Natural Questions
“Remember
my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the
weaker”
―
Bram Stoker, Dracula
“It
is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
―
Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls
“Don't
fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their
heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the
ass.”
―
P.C. Cast, Divine By Mistake
