Quotes About Knowledge

Dear goodness, the things you learned.

As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike—in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

I'm Charles Baker Harris, he said, and I can read.

Atticus, you are rewriting history." "No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.

Chi ha una mente saggia non si inorgoglisce delle proprie doti

You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No

Perhaps our forefathers were wise.

should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

Didn't you know? Hasn't Atticus gotten around to telling you that? Why, I'm amazed at Zandra not . . . good heavens, I thought all of Maycomb knew that." "Knew what?" "I was in love with your mother." "My mother?

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.

Tidak selalu perlu menunjukkan semua yang kita ketahui. Itu bukan sikap perempuan terhormat. Kedua, orang tak suka kalau ada orang lain yang lebih tahu dari mereka. Itu membuat mereka sebal.

He had to know who he'd be fighting if the time ever came to—he had to find out who they were. . . .

you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

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everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

Never ask a witness a question when you don't already know the answer

I'm older than anybody here, I know more than anybody here, so why should I be so afraid of anybody here?

Never assume they know what you fear they know.

I could say. "Well I damn well knew what

Like all of the other sciences, we have found out that the more we know, the more there is to know.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.