Quotes About Knowledge

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know.

But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

she reads book as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ?

Usually it is a bit of a trick to keep your knowledge from blinding you.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

She reads ?books as ?one would breathe air ?to fill up and live

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is... what he will know.

She read books as one would breath air, to fill up and live.

She reads books as one would create air, to fill up and live

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?