Quotes About Knowledge

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered