Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.~ Pope Pius XII Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.~ Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.~ Plato Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.~ Titus Maccius Plautus No man is wise enough by himself.~ Titus Maccius Plautus The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.~ Plutarch We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.~ Marcel Proust The wise learn from the experience of others, most from their own experience, and fools not at all.~ Proverb The wise do freely, early and in good time, what fools do later out of necessity.~ Proverb Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.~ Proverb Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom.~ Proverb You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.~ Navajo Proverb It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn Rand There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.~ Ayn Rand A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.~ Jonathan Rauch We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.~ Ronald Reagan How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.~ Ronald Reagan Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldn't be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.~ Charley Reese Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge—information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.~ Sheldon Richman We continue to claim that nobody is supposed to ignore the law. But we must give some credit to those who know it.~ Georges Ripert Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print