Quotes About Knowledge

I learned by trial and error. Are there other ways to learn? If so, someone should have said something. My companions in that trial and error were songs, for the most part.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I think we're supposed to know everything we can figure out. I don't think we're supposed to make up answers just because we can't stand living with unanswered questions.

privately he considered him a prime specimen of the doomed ruling-class elite. "His intellectual equipment was unimpressive," Philby later wrote, "his knowledge of the world, and views about it, were just what one would expect from a fairly cloistered son of the upper levels of the British establishment.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. "Dread" is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

Learning what you know is something you have to do every day and every moment.

my mother was, though intelligent, not particularly intellectual.

I knew perfectly well what it was about.

but with limited data their answers involved a lot of guesswork.

fiction. As I grew older I read more widely.

King gave me an important piece of information: He

We were always looking for people who could bring knowledge of community banking to the Board,

Investors were unwilling to buy securities they knew little about.

It was academic rigor meeting street smarts, which Hank possessed in abundance.

After all, who knows more about the local economy than a community banker?

which seemed the right decision given what we knew then.

an area in which we had little or no expertise. And,

We were more likely to see an unfair or inaccurate story from journalists who did not usually cover the Fed and were, consequently, less well informed.