Quotes About Knowledge

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

It's time to believe in what you know.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.