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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