Quotes About Knowledge

No one is wise at all times.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.