Quotes About Knowledge

Al subir al ring, el púgil más preparado es el que ha intentado conocer a su adversario. Sobre todo si eres tú mismo.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour. There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages would make one a very superior human being, something bordering almost on the supernatural.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Instead

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!

older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.

the surest way to success in education, and in any other line for that matter, is to stick close to the common and familiar things — things that concern the greater part of the people the greater part of the time.

The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.

I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences

No existe ciencia acabada, la ciencia vive superando errores y no estableciendo verdades.

unique understanding

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie, vous? – J'apprends des choses, dit Colin. Et j'aime Chloé.

C'est drôle comme les gens qui se croient instruits éprouvent le besoin de faire chier le monde.

Books are embalmed minds.

Books are embalmed minds. They make the great of other days our present teachers.

All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

One of the greatest bores in life is a too knowing fellow, who sees through all delusions, and will never let you enjoy any of them, not even your favorite ones, no matter how agreeable they may be, but must be always waking you out of some delicious dream, only to tell you, "My dear sir, you are dreaming;" as if it were not both proper and natural to dream. He forgets that many things are pleasant only while the delusions which make them so last.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.