Quotes About Knowledge

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".