Quotes About Knowledge

How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?

Now, that,' said Sophy, 'I am very glad to know, because if ever I should desire to please you I shall know just how to set about it. I daresay I shan't, but one likes to be prepared for any event, however unlikely.

You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.' 'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son.

Ned! if you don't tell me, it will be quite shameful of you! You always know everything!''Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of,' Carlyon replied, looking back at him with his faint smile. 'What a sad blow it would be to my vanity if you found I could be just as easily mistaken as anyone else! You must let me keep my own counsel until I am certain.

Does it matter what I know? It is what Cleone knows, but there's naught under the sun so unreasonable as a maid in love.

Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of

It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books.

But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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knew something that the children did not, but he went right to work and

Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.

Docendo discimus.' 'I'm afraid you will have to translate for me,' Tom told him. "'We learn by teaching"

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. - V6-P427

I graduated from college with a degree in ex-phys and kinesiology, because it was learning to work out, and I already knew how to work out. So, I just wanted an easy degree. I'm sorry but that's just the way it was.

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.