Quotes About Knowledge

I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

Just because school's boring so much of the time, that doesn't mean kids don't want to learn.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

They read all the books but they can't find the answers.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel--these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national.

But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother of art and of knowledge, in spite of everything, still is and still will be, will she not reject these counsels of indifference and isolation, and interest herself in what may prove decisive issues for the progress and civilization of all mankind?

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.

That's one thing can't be bought is brains. Only God can give brains. And they don't come off the wind either.

As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred.

I wasn't interested in society, or ancient people's money troubles. I wanted to know what books really meant.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.

mostly." He had majored in American literature at Fairleigh

Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, 'No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion.