Quotes About Knowledge

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door--a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known.

But I'll know my song well before I start singin

presuming, you've thoroughly thought out and researched

He immediately corrected that thought; he had no idea what reality was

You can market your book, but you can't sell your book. The only book we've ever seen being successfully "sold" by selling methods is the Encyclopedia.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

the newspapers he read more thoroughly than the public generally knew.

He was at MIT for 42 years or something. He was a great—so I understand that stuff. You know, genetically.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

De esta ciudad de libros hizo dueños a unos ojos sin luz

Uno llega a ser grande por lo que lee y no por lo que escribe.

Moins on a de connaissances, plus on a de convictions.

I should say the summit of contemporary university knowledge in two fields, mathematics and the humanities. That's no joke!