knowledge Quotes

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.