Source: Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life
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“Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”
Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,
Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.”
“It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.”
“Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.”
Source: This is Eric Sevareid
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
Source: Roughing It
“The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.”
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”
Source: The Guardian
“That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”
Source: Sartor Resartus
“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
Source: This Simian World
“Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.”
Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny
“And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.”
“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things