Quotes About Knowledge

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't them

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was all done by

People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser

In our own case--we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.

he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

They know, too, that while in history-building a fact is better than a presumption, it doesn't take a presumption long to bloom into a fact when THEY have the handling of it.

Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most any thing and I believe him.

C?r?ile mele sunt ca apa. C?r?ile marilor genii sunt ca vinul. Din fericire toat? lumea bea ap?.

way. And there ain't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things.

If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage the man who can't read them

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

Man muß die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.

There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

No one in the world speaks blemishless grammar; no one has ever written it--NO one, either in the world or out of it (taking the Scriptures for evidence on the latter point); therefore it would not be fair to exact grammatical perfection from the peoples of the Valley; but they and all other peoples may justly be required to refrain from KNOWINGLY and PURPOSELY debauching their grammar.

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

It ain't so much the things that people don't know that makes trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know that ain't so.

Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.