Quotes of Information - somelinesforyou

“ A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ”

- Confucius

“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. ”

- Richard Bach

“ The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. ”

- Robert Quillen

“ If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. ”

- Paul Ehrlich

“ Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born. ”

- Geoff Davis

“ No one wants advice, only corroboration. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we're doing too little and moving much too slowly. ”

- Sam Nunn

“ We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ”

- Bible

“ Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ”

- Wilhelm Reich

“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ”

- Gerard de Nerval

“ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ”

- John Locke

“ Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ”

- Confucius

“ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (1 Timothy 6:20). ”

- Bible

“ Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ”

- Al Capone
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