Quotes About Knowledge

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

I want to learn more. I want to know more. That's what taking this time is about. I'm curious about so many things, but haven't had occasion to be exposed to them enough to really appreciate them.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.