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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx
A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. - Alexander Pope
A teacher effects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops. unknown I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. - Charles Simmons
All men by nature desire to know. - Aristotle
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. - James A. Michner
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. - Jules Verne
As long as you live, keep learning how to live - Seneca
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. - Thomas `a Kempis
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield
Behind an able man there are always other able men. - Chinese Proverb
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Bokonon
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. - Lord Macaulay
Education If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. - Cornelius Vanderbilt
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men\'s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates
Even a fool knows you can\'t touch the stars, but it doesn\'t stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson, Night Court
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. - Bernard Baruch
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers
Fact is only solidified opinion. The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. - Sophocles
Genius is nothing but continued attention. - Claude A. Helvetius
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
I learned from them that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. Brenda Ue
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon
If ignorance is bliss, why aren\'t there more happy people? - Author Unknown
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. - Sir Alan Herbert
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with just the fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity. - Daniel Webster
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. - Nicholas Ling
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. - Plato
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. - Joseph Priestly, 1786
It has taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. - Author Unknown
It is always the season for the old to learn. - Aeschylus
It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools. - Brigham Young
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know. - Hannah More
It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes. - David O. McKay
It takes a long time to understand nothing. - Edward Dahlberg
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it. - Author Unknown
Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. If we have not experienced it in this life, we must have experienced it in other lives. Neither you, nor I, nor anyone present, has come out of zero, nor will go back to zero. We have been existing eternally, and will exist, and there is no power under the sun or above the sun which can undo your or my existence or send us back to zero. Now this idea of reincarnation is not only not a frightening idea, but is most essential for the mortal well-being of the human race. No other theory except that of reincarnation accounts for the wide divergence that we find between man and man in their powers to acquire knowledge. - Living at the Source Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. - Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. - Gene Wolfe
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. - Will Durant
Knowledge It isn\'t what you know that counts, it\'s what you think of in time. - Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. - Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. - Carl G. Jung
Knowledge Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. - St. Thomas Aquinas Two Precepts of Charity.
Knowledge Try to put into practice what you already know, and in so doing you will in good time discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. - Henry Van Dyke
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known. - Edwin P. Whipple
Learn to unlearn. - Benjamin Disraeli
Learning We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? - Francis Bacon
Men learn while they teach. - Seneca
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open. - Unknown
Much learning does not teach a man to have intelligence. - Heraclitus
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy. - Edward Young
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. - African proverb
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind. - George Santayana The Life of Reason, 1906
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
On him does death lie heavily who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. - Seneca
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. - Confucius
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder
Socrates dunked someone\'s head under water, when the man struggled and gasped for air he held him there just a little longer. When he finally let the man up for air, he told the man, When you fight for learning as much as you fought for air, you\'ll have it. - Author Unknown
Strive not to know all the answers, but to understand the questions. When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding. - Chinese Proverb
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. - Issac Asimov
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tell me and I forget; Show me and I remember; involve me and I understand. - Unknown
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herber
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. - Author Unknown
The end of man is knowledge but there\'s one thing he can\'t know. He can\'t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can\'t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn\'t got and which if he had it would save him. - Robert Penn Warren
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. - Confucius
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. - Richard Cecil
The heart is wiser than the intellect. - J.G. Holland
The little I know I owe to my ignorance. - Sacha Guitry
The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them. - Douglas Everett
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody\'s word about them. - Henry Bolingbroke
The truly educated man will speak to the understanding of the most unlearned man of his audience. - Karl G. Maeser
There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge. - Peter Latham Learning
There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity. - Aristotle
There\'s nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. - Author Unknown
Though we may be learned by another\'s knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. - Montaigne
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. - John Locke
To be conscious that we are perceiving and thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. - Aristotle
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucius
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Huxley
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. - Henry David Thoreau
What is not fully understood is not possessed. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough. - Eugene Delacroix
When a man\'s knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him. - Baltasar Gracian
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day. - Sanskrit proverb
Your ignorance cramps my conversation. - Author Unknown
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