Quotes About Knowledge

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

I judged I would have the start of the best-educated man in the kingdom by a matter of thirteen hundred years and upwards.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. The grandest field that ever was; and all my own; not a competitor; not a man who wasn't a baby to me in acquirements and capacities; whereas, what would I amount to in the twentieth century? I should be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine downstreet any day and catch a hundred better men than myself.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.

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.

KiÅŸinin kafas? ve kalbi boÅŸsa, karn? tok olmuÅŸ, neye yarar ! Bugün öÄŸrendiklerimi hep akl?mda tutacak, ald???m dersi hiç unutmayacak, halk?m? bu s?k?nt?lardan kurtaraca??m. Ne de olsa insan?n kalbini yumuÅŸatan da, içine iyilik ve cömertlik a??layan da bilgi deÄŸil mi ? / Çal?nan Taç / The Prince and the Pauper

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

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately everybody drinks water.

Never let school interfere with your education

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

His intertwined understanding informed his professional path; his path informed an industry.

Being a good conversationalist is really what a liberal arts education is all about.

We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

I must read. I must read. I must read.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.

What did God really know about brothers (or for that matter sisters)? He was after all an only child and before it all an equally lonely father.

get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591

Les gens veulent toujours des experts, mais parfois ils ont la chance de tomber sur un débutant.