Wisdom

Knowledge itself is power

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it form him

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is impossible to open a book without learning something

A wise man seeks Wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it

When a wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger

Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it

No wise man ever wished to be younger

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Use your head to save your feet