Worldly Knowledge Quotes

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

I've been influenced by my travels across India and the globe.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

I used to think that growing up in New York made me ready for everything - for everything. Before I really got a chance to travel, I thought that I was better prepared for the world because I was from New York.

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.