Quotes About Knowledge

The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?

An old and gray-headed error.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

I had read my way not to knowledge but into an inscrutable oblivion.

It's a language I've come to hate, because it admits no mystery and no ambiguity into its smug vocabulary, which arrogantly suggests that everything can be known.

The smarter you are, the sexier you are.

Erica's imminent departure changed us. The knowledge that we would soon be separated made us both more indulgent, relieving us of a burden I still can't name. I didn't want her to go away, and yet the fact that she was going away loosened a bolt in the machinery of our marriage. It had become a machine by then, a churning repetitious engine of mourning.

Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.