Quotes About Knowledge

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

How could she let him go, with all that information in his head? It was spotty, and they had no way of knowing how much of it was true, but it was all they had.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Talent alone does not make someone an expert.

The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.

ensure your losses don't carry costs too high to make the knowledge worth it.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don't sleep with people who don't read!

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

I've loved reading all my life.

Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Know this, and let it somewhat raise your spite, Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

What's this flesh? A little cruded milk Fantastical puff-paste. Our bodies are weaker than those Paper prisons boys use to keep flies in; more contemptible, Since our is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever seen A lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world Is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads Like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge Of the small compass of our prison.