This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Monday, December 29, 2008

Intelligence / Knowledge Quotes

1. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson

2. If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things that cannot be learned in any other way. – Mark Twain

3. If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield

4. Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. - Chuang-tse

5. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb

6. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Huxley

7. Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. - Cicero

8. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Disraeli

9. Knowledge is comfortable and a necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, but if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. - Chesterfield

10. The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

11. You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure. - John F. Kennedy

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