Quotes About Knowledge

Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered

doctoral thesis? Don't tell

To study in order to know? No. To study in order to know more? No. I think it is to study in order to ask more and more questions.

When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?

To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?" "Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

Academia implores you to unlearn then relearn as you climb the ladder of knowledge, creating a thin line between the truth and evidence.

the more you understand your memory, the more inspired you'll be to improve it.

No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Premature Burial

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Truth is only belived when someone has invented it well.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Saya tidak tahu Saudara siapa, tetapi saya sangat mengharapkan agar Saudara-lah yang nanti mengontrak saya. Saya suka kepada Saudara karena Saudara kadang-kadang membaca cerita pendek--oleh karena itu, tentunya melek huruf, sabar, cerdas, berpengetahuan luas, dan intelek, hanya saja tidak mampu membeli rumah.

When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.

not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this

I cannot imagine in the future any girl who looks on the light of the sun who will have your skill and wisdom.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Even the wise need wisdom.

Mysteries never end," Silette wrote. "And we solve them anyway, knowing we are both solving both everything and nothing. We solve them knowing the world will surely be as poorly or even worse off than before. But this is the piece of life we have been given authority over, nothing else; and while we may ask why over and over, no one yet has been given an answer.

Happiness," Silette wrote, "is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

solutions are always possible, and the limits of the truth far exceed the limits of human understanding.

It was this idea that books contained secrets. Important information that would be lost if someone didn't preserve it. And then I studied history and got really into that and I realized that was true not just about sex but lots of things. If someone doesn't care about books, shit gets lost. And then I became a librarian. And archivist.

The truth is a funny thing," Constance said. "Just when you think you've got a hold on it, it slips away.