knowledge Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Information is not knowledge.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.