Jacqueline Carey Quotes

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.