Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours – John Locke

Source: As quoted in “Hand Book : Caution and Counsels” in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, page 371. Complete Quote: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; Read More…

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Source; Alan Moore, V for Vendetta.

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Source: Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts (2000), Part IV : On Achievement, page: 46.

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listen.

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays, otherwise it departs.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Source: Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (1682) by the early American Quaker leader William Penn. Complete Sentence: Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.