Quotes About Knowledge

They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes," she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. "But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes.

One needs a certain base of knowledge before one can ask sensible questions.

Daisy said boldly. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." "Yes, but it is a wise man who understands his limits." "Who said that?" Daisy asked. "I did," Honoria answered impatiently

Dizem que uma pessoa inteligente aprende com os seus erros (...), mas uma pessoa verdadeiramente inteligente aprende com os erros dos outros.

It isn't wisdom to repeat platitudes." "It is wisdom to know which ones bear repeating.

He was wearing that enigmatic little smile of his, as if he knew something that she didn't. Actually, she thought, it was more like he knew something that she never would.

She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.

But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes.

People always feared what they didn't understand.

They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes," she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. "But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes." She pulled away, then turned to face him. "I'd like to think I'm a truly smart person. Please don't take that away from me.

He knew it the way he knew the earth was round and her eyes were blue and that two plus two would always always be four.

The one before her was some sort of study, with a wall of books, all leather-bound and smelling like knowledge.

Anything I could get my hands on. Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

Yes, well, I do have four brothers. A better education I cannot imagine.

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Carter Hall is a cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon from 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons.'

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I'm an educated individual.

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.