Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
Nicolas de Chamfort
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Confucius
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
If ignorance isn`t bliss, I don`t know what is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Gustav Jung
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
The qualities, which a man seeks in his beloved, are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
Plato
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Francis Scott-Fitzgerald
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
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.
Anatole France
As for me, I know that I know nothing, but others know still less.
Socrates
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take the daughter of a good mother.
Thomas Fuller
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Gustav Jung
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one`s ignorance.
Confucius
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao Tzu
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Henry David Thoreau
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Charles Darwin
Experience is not what happens to you. It`s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
Paul Valery
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can`t expect an apostle to look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg