A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
—Confucius
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Sunday, August 04, 2024
Sunday, February 04, 2024
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Post #3210
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
—Marcus Aurelius
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Post #3178
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
—Alfred North Whitehead
—Alfred North Whitehead
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Post #3059
Educated persons should share their thoughts with the uneducated, and take also a certain part in their labours.
—John Ruskin
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Sunday, August 09, 2020
Post #3031
Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.
—George Swinnock
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Post #2897
A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired much knowledge, answered, “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant."
Monday, August 19, 2019
Post #2896
What is all knowledge, too, but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?
—Thomas Carlyle
—Thomas Carlyle
Friday, August 16, 2019
Post #2895
Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Post #2894
Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Post #2238
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
—Confucius
—Confucius
Friday, June 24, 2016
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Post #2069
In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take the precedence.
—Chinese Proverb
Monday, November 16, 2015
Post #1946
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
—Sir Thomas Browne
—Sir Thomas Browne
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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