Quotes About Knowledge

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there.

Hohe Bildung kann man dadurch beweisen, daß man die kompliziertesten Dinge auf einfache Art zu erläutern versteht.

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

church. Therefore, people will believe whatever is preached because they don't read the Word of God for themselves.

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.