Quotes About Knowledge

I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Blithering ignorance can be found wherever you choose to live.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.

The sounds of tag beat through the trees while the top branches waved in contrapuntal rhythms. I lay on a moment of green grass and telescoped the children's game to my vision. The girls ran about wild, now here, now there, never here, never was, they seemed to have no more direction than a splattered egg. But it was a shared if seldom voiced knowledge that all movements fitted, and worked according to a larger plan.

We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.

My entire stay there might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

But you can't hide from me, Lyric. I'm learning you. I want to learn more.

I would know.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

it's only by studying the mistakes of the past," Lucien said mildly, "that we can even have a future

If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat all the fish you might have caught for yourself.--Advice of Paul Slater, the evil mediator, to Suze

You know, Grandma says, you could learn a lot from Dr.Quinn. She knows how to make soap from a sheep's guts. And she had twins when she was fifty. Fifty!

I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I'm not a complete moron, I've watched 90210, and everything.

I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

Math-a-chu-setts.

Only through pain can you be sure of the truth

The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.

Ruang perpustakaan tidak pernah cukup untuk menyimpan buku yang tidak pernah dibaca, jadi pustakawan memeriksa catatannya setiap saat dan menarik buku-buku yang tidak lagi dibaca orang. Kau bisa menyelamatkan buku hanya dengan membacanya. Tentu saja, kau mungkin tidak menyukainya. Tapi kau tidak pernah tahu sampai kau mencobanya, dan mungkin, kau akan suka.

Servants, in my experience, always know everything.

Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word "diagnosis" derives from the Greek gign?skein, "to know") that allows others to recognize our experience and enables us to tell its story

Well, for one thing, she said, her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.