Quotes About Knowledge

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

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When the Christian's mind becomes dull, he can fall prey to the propaganda of a non-Christian scheme of things, led by people who have not neglected their thinking powers—and have simply outthought us.

In a republic that depended on the intelligence and virtue of all citizens, the diffusion of knowledge had to be widespread. Indeed, said Noah Webster, education had to be "the most important business in civil society.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Ronnie never stopped talking, even though he never had anything to say except what he had just read in the Reader's Digest, which he studied the way that Jefferson did Montesquieu.

It is my task always to know, particularly when I don't.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: wähle! Ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke und sagte: Vater gib! die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!

But it is possible to study until one has studied oneself deep into error.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Thus the thought, for example, which we expressed in the Pythagorean theorem is timelessly true, true independently of whether anyone takes it to be true. It needs no bearer. It is not true for the first time when it is discovered, but is like a planet which, already before anyone has seen it, has been in interaction with other planets.

Feed your head means read a book.

Remember what the Dormouse said, Feed Your Head!

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

They had the comfort of not learning from experience.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.