Knowledge Quotes

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adv...

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Ca...

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to r...

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of l...

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential moth...

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man wil...

Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowled...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rar...

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us ...

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, a...

The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in al...

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not env...

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an e...

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of t...

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought...

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posse...

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wond...

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported...

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. B...

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities o...

One cannot know everything.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how should the faculty of k...

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is know...

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, a...

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes....

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – ...

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

...We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelation...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral t...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty ...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to...

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ...

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

Hell is truth known too late.

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute s...

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute s...

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that not...

Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shal...

What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern ...

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligenc...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegr...

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire kn...

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can...

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm the...

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of...

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the an...

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she...

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.