Quotes About Knowledge

All progress, ultimately, is the result of playing with ideas and seeing new ways of connecting existing knowledge in such a way that the sum is greater than its constituent parts. And making such unlikely connections is the essence of punning. Without learning to pun, we might just take speech at face value and wouldn't necessarily learn to hunt for deeper, different or related meanings.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

If we are not informed we will become deformed

Es imposible demostrar que algo es cierto. Solo podemos descubrir que algo es falso y, así, acercarnos un poco más a la verdad.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain

Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

Make no mistake. The genes we're born with carry memory. They carry knowledge we've never learned, talents we've never studied, even fear of things that have never frightened us. but someone, in some time out of mind, had these memories. Yes, you might say that all of us are haunted. You might very well say that.?

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.

Paradoxically, therefore, as economics becomes more truly scientific, it will become less of a science. Acknowledging these limitations will free it to serve us once more.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

History without political science has no fruit. Political science without history has no root.

You know a whole lot more about money than you think you do. You've only been misled to believe that you don't know by people who don't want you to understand how simple money really is."

Falsafah tidak pernah terlepas daripada sejarah. Kadang-kadang saya terfikir ada bagusnya jika saya terus menyata kebenaran tentang sesebuah soalan kepada pelajar saya lalu mengakhiri syarahan. Tetapi pendekatan membelakangi sejarah sedemikian rupa cenderung menghasil kedangkalan falsafah.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

A book worth reading is worth owning.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.