Quotes About Knowledge

we probably don't know many of the answers and can't argue cleverly. And yet I suppose there's room for the stupid as well,

By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth

Allesandra stood close against Nero's flank flank and looked into her brother's blue eyes, "Your knowledge will keep me safe - or as safe as a girl with dreams can ever be in this small minded world

Sa shume kohe i kam vjedhur gjumit per te kerkuar neper udhet me te erreta te kujteses! Por gjumi me rrembente para se te udhetoja aq sa te gjeja cfare digjesha te dija.

And this guy called himself a safety professional? When was the last time HE read a Department of Motor Vehicles manual?

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible—and usually we've been told by people without much experience.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

You can be with a man for twenty years and never really know who he truly is. Then again, you can meet a man and know everything about him in an instant.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Books} are the bankers of the treasures of the mind.

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library?

Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.

Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!" lamented Samuel Coleridge. "But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us." The image is beautiful but

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

The problem with research, of course, was knowing when to stop. "One must stop before one has finished," she advised, "otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.