Sunday 30 April 2017

Knowledge Sayings and Quotes



A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning.

Vietnamese (on journeys)






Brains are better than brawn.    

unknown





Distance lends enchantment to the view.    

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)





Don't reinvent the wheel.    

unknown





Doubt is the key to knowledge.    

Iranian (on education)





Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.    

Will Rogers (1879-1935)





Example is the best precept.    

Aesop (c.620-560 BC)





Hit the nail on the head.    

John Heywood (c.1497-1580)





Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.    

Martin Luther King Jr.





Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.    

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)






It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.    

Spanish Proverb





It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.    

Japanese (on relative worth)





Know thyself.    

Ancient Greek Proverb





Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.    

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)





Knowledge is power.    

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)





Learning is better than house and land.    

David Garrick (1716-1779)





Mistakes are doorways to discovery.    

unknown





Never stop learning.    

unknown





People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.    

Socrates (469-399 BC)





Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





Put two and two together.    

unknown





The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.

Bahamian (on knowledge and justice)






What good is running when you're on the wrong road.    

German (on planning)





What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come.    

Chinese Proverb





When you're sad, learn something,    

Merlin





Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.    

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972)





With time even a bear can learn to dance.    

Yiddish (on education)

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