Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts

Monday, July 31, 2017

Wisdom quote

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in moulding our conduct according to her laws and model.

On the happy life by Seneca 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Quote about human brain

A man`s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful, indeed, as to what he takes into his brain-attic.He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle