KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION

Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord, and you will gain knowledge of God. For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:5–6

A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

Proverbs 14:6

The Lord preserves knowledge, but he ruins the plans of the deceitful.

Proverbs 22:12

A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge is more powerful than a strong man.

Proverbs 24:5

A bird can sing on a perch that swings because he knows how to fly.

He who has a strange horse goes halfway on foot.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge—others just gargle.

I know where charity begins,

But since the first lend-leases

I’ve wondered more and more,

Just where this painful virtue ceases.

Francis O. Walsh

Describing his friend, the man said, “He knows so little and knows it so fluently!”

If you want to get into Who’s Who, you’d better first learn what’s what.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Like the surgeon said—“it’s fifty dollars for cuttin’ and a full hundred for knowin’ where.”

Education is forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Horace Mann

It’s not only the IQ but also the I Will that is important in getting an education.

I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is but a cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Education covers a lot of ground, but it doesn’t cultivate it.