Quotes About Knowledge

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

There's always someone who knows something.

When an old man dies, a library burns.

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see .

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing.

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

no knowledge obtained without risk

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus—so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

Creemos que sabemos mucho, pero en realidad no sabemos más que una rata en una trampa, una rata con la espalda rota que aún cree que quiere vivir.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that.

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.

In case you didn't know it, friend, the Weather Bureau can post tornado warnings, but when it comes to telling exactly when and where they'll touch down, they don't know fuck-all.

Belief is a high hurdle to get over and I think it's even higher for smart people. Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.