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Quotes About Knowledge

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.
~ Jay Baer
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
~ Aeschylus
Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
~ Calvin Miller
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
~ Robert Jordan
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
~ Thabo Mbeki
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
~ Jupiter Hammon
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
~ Karl Kraus
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!
~ Lil B
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
~ Ernest Dimnet
Is being an idiot like being high all the time?
~ Janeane Garofalo
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
~ Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
~ Mark Twain
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
~ Sylvia Earle
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
~ Viktor Schauberger
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
~ Xenophanes
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.
~ Jamie Hyneman
Truth is child of Time.
~ John Ford
What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
~ Anna Politkovskaya