Quotes About Knowledge

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.