Quotes About Knowledge

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. —WARREN BUFFETT

Edgar behaved at the track as though he did not know what everyone in law enforcement knew, that racetrack gambling was the single most important source of revenue for organized crime.

It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study, said Mr. Monk, and very often do not do so even then. We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

Every man to himself is the centre of the whole world;—the axle on which it all turns. All knowledge is but his own perception of the things around him. All love, and care for others, and solicitude for the world's welfare, are but his own feelings as to the world's wants and the world's merits.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man.

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.

Solve senescentem.

Servants are wonderful actors, looking often as though they knew nothing when they know everything, — as though they understood nothing, when they understand all.

He certainly was no fool. He had read much, and, though he generally forgot what he read, there were left with him from his readings certain nebulous lights, begotten by other men's thinking, which enabled him to talk on most subjects. It cannot be said of him that he did much thinking for himself; — but he thought that he thought.

You guess. You're always a-guessing. And because you know how to guess, they pays you for guessing. But guessing ain't knowing. You don't know; — nor yet don't I.

One forms half the conclusions of one's life without any distinct knowledge that the premises have even passed through one's mind.

An aspirant must learn everything; but a man may make his fortune at it, and know almost nothing.

If a man have not acquired the habit of reading till he be old, he shall sooner in his old age learn to make shoes than learn the adequate use of a book.

Ah; they never do that here. I have heard that there is a library, but the clue to it has been lost, and nobody now knows the way. I don't believe in libraries. Nobody ever goes into a library to read, any more than you would into a larder to eat. But there is this difference; — the food you consume does come out of the larders, but the books you read never come out of the libraries.

And it must be explained that Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the course of law in the country in which she lived.

acquired the knack of spreading all she knew very thin, so that it might cover a vast surface.

the triad of human perfection": knowledge, judgment, and character.

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.

Keep your soul free. What matters most in life is not knowledge, but character … There is a knowledge other than that which is of the domain of memory: the knowledge of how to live. Study must be an act of life, must serve life, must feel itself impregnated with life. Of the two kinds of men, those who endeavor to know something, and those who try to be someone, the palm is to the second. What we know is like a beginning, a rough sketch only; the man is the finished work.

Culture is a privilege. Education is a privilege. And we do not want it to be so. All young people should be equal before culture.

Possibility means freedom. The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to know them, and know how to use them.

Un traduttore qualificato dovrebbe essere in grado non solo di tradurre letteralmente, ma di tradurre i termini, anche concettuali, di una determinata cultura nazionale nei termini di un'altra cultura nazionale, cioè un tale traduttore dovrebbe conoscere criticamente due civiltà ed essere in grado di far conoscere l'una all'altra servendosi del linguaggio storicamente determinato di quella civiltà alla quale fornisce il materiale d'informazione.

Where do you go when you want to learn things? No, not the internet. The public library. -Piper