Quotes About Knowledge

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

To read is to voyage through time.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.