Quotes About Knowledge

All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Belief is a poor substitute for certain knowledge.

It's good to be curious about many things.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads, Its master's step is brisk; The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads But adds unto their risk.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

Academics, think-tank executives, scientists, and high-level bureaucrats, as well as well-educated managers of major companies and their technical staff, are naturally attracted to the idea of a society ruled by professional experts with "enlightened" values—that is, by people much like themselves.10 This

Et depuis quand les évêques s'y connaissent-ils en femmes? —Très longue histoire. La nuit des temps —répondit l'évêque.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at least one truth, so that his very capacity to doubt should convince him that there is such a thing as truth.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

An educated people can be easily governed.