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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American founding father and scientist (see works by and about Benjamin Franklin )
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius (551?-479 BC) Chinese philosopher (see more about Confucius )
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford (see works by and about Henry Ford )
Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant (1885-1981) American historian
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 (see works by and about Henry Ford )
Of course, you don’t have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowldege. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the “common knowledge” of tick-tock, which isn’t worth as much, if anything at all.
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some!, by Stuart Wilde (see works by Stuart Wilde )
It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Anthony Robbins (see works by Anthony Robbins )
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein (see works by and about Albert Einstein )
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner
That which seems to pass away on the surface of time is in fact transfigured and housed in the tabernacle of memory.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p31), by John O’Donohue
When you really gaze at something, you bring it inside you.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p87), by John O’Donohue
As the biggest library, if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer (see works by Arthur Schopenhauer )
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (see works by and about Thomas Jefferson )
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