Quotes About Knowledge

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Good to be merry and wise.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;

At heart I'm still a straight-laced, fuddy-duddy science journalist who believes, knows, that science can discover true facts about the world. But my view of truth has become more expansive lately.

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

Wisdom says, "Come, eat of my bread and drink of my wine. Forsake your simple ways, and [you will know what it means to truly] live" (Proverbs 9:5–6).

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

From the very beginning of my studying I made it a rule that whenever, in any matter, I heard a sounder viewpoint, I abandoned the one I had since I know well that we know far less than what we do not know.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

I'm a handy-challenged, bona fide egghead who wouldn't know a drill bit from a sledgehammer." Now We Know Why It's Called a Punch List due for publication in 2019

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord Hilts

All truth is simple, but all that's simple is not truth"