Quotes About Knowledge

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.