Quotes About Knowledge

And math to me is just a training course to be a citizen, how to think in the world.

I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.

books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Luck never made a man wise.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

It was strange having so much knowledge at once and having so little power to direct her own fate. But she listened, she watched, and she learned.

But your thirst for knowledge has sparked life back into us, and for that we are grateful.

Il n'est pas âme qui vive Qui me plaise autant que toi Si tu étais plus naive Je t'apprendrais tout ce que tu sais déja

Much knowledge, much sorrow...

Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by"—he frowned—"the

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn't just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God's word.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

The biggest problem in the world is not inequality. It's ignorance. It's the lack of access to education and information.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.