Quotes About Knowledge

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

I reck'n I knows what I knows.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

Bu hayatta ihtiyac?n?z olan ÅŸey, cehalet ve özgüvendir. Bunlar varsa, baÅŸar? kesindir.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.

One lives to find out.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know; whereas the priest, like God, whose imitator and representative he is, has made it his business from the beginning to keep him from knowing any useful thing.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

He denounced him openly as a charlatan--a fraud with no valuable knowledge of any kind, or powers beyond those of an ordinary and rather inferior human being.

So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.

good decisions come from experience. experience comes from making bad decisions.

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous.

old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's sot, stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when you fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.