Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

A bigot can be defined as a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

me, my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don't know where to dig, you'll only find dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

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Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Look, Tad, you're quite sure that you have no idea, even in the back of your mind, where Bill could have been staying?" "I haven't got a back to my mind. I have just a small, narrow space in front where I keep all that's useful to me. A few telephone numbers and a prayer or two.

La verdad es la hija del tiempo.

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job

It was shocking how little history remained with one after a good education.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.