Posts Tagged ‘Knowledge’
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but awhile he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Witold Gombrowicz
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Witold Gombrowicz
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker