Category: VAULT Quotes

Knowledge vs Wisdom

Some random quotes for the day:

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
– Will Durant

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
– Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
– Andr Gide

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
– Bertrand Russel

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.”
-Aristotle

Wisdom

Quotes for the day:

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.
— The Talmud

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth

Justice and Censorship

Couple quotes for the day:

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
— Thomas Jefferson

I am spending more time looking at the words of our founding fathers lately.