Quotes About Knowledge

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

I never let school get in the way of my education!

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.