Quotes About Knowledge

In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

old age is more easily kept at bay by an ever-inquiring mind than by any creams and lotions.

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons regard as a sacred fact – the lie that has been inculcated around a mother's knee – is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Some say that society is divided into those who have and those who have not but wished they had. I believe a more fundamental division is between those who know and those who do not know and have no idea they do not know.

My mouth keeps forgetting what my head has learned.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned.

Mad Thomist's Syllogism: All wisdom is in the mind of the Angelic Doctor. I know the mind of the Angelic Doctor.

Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we'll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving us prey to demagogues and despicable entertainments.

I always had the idea that when I was older I'd get frightfully clever. I'd get awfully learned, I'd get jolly sage. People would come to me for advice. But nobody comes to me for anything, and I don't know a bloody thing.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.