Cool Quotes - K

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.

Tain't what a man don't know that hurts him; it's what he knows that just ain't so!

As soon as any man says of the affairs of state, What does it matter to me? the state may be given up as lost.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird . . . So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.

Learned foolishness, is more egregiously foolish than the folly of ignorance. It is wayward, positive, and imperious; too conceited and indocile to be informed, and too obstinate to forsake error.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not understand, is a very corrupting thing.