Quotes About Knowledge

A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

Imagine a world where Hillary Clinton actually knew what she was talking about.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

I can read and write in Hindi.

Always pass on what you have learned. -Yoda

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by? — No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.

It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other.

The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understands it.

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!

I must accept my fate! But how was life to be lived in a world of which I had all the laws to learn? There would, however, be adventure! that held consolation; and whether I found my way home or not, I should at least have the rare advantage of knowing two worlds!

Is that all the philosophy you have gained in one-and-twenty years? said she. Form is much, but size is nothing.

He did not torture himself with vain attempts to hold his brain as a mirror to his heart, that he might read his heart there. The heart is deaf and dumb and blind, but it has more in it — more life and blessedness, more torture and death — than any poor knowledge-machine of a brain can understand, or even delude itself into the fancy of understanding.

Why know the name of a thing when the thing itself you do not know? Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!" But

There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.

Knowlegde no doubt made bad people worse, but it must make good people better!

Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

Malcolm) A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree: they must all take time to grow, and so must a library.... (Lady Florimel) You could get somebody who knew more about them (the books) to buy them for you. (Malcolm) I would as soon think of getting somebody to eat my dinner for me.

But herein is the Bible itself greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Of all useless things a knowledge of the future seems to me the most useless, for what are you to do with a thing before it exists? Such a knowledge could only bewilder you as to the right way to take—would make you see double instead of single.

I maun hae buiks. I wad get the newspapers whiles, but no aften, for they're a sair loss o' precious time. Ye see they tell ye things afore they're sure, an' ye hae to spen' yer time the day readin' what ye'll hae to spen' yer time the morn readin' oot again; an' ye may as weel bide till the thing's sattled a wee.