Quotes About Knowledge

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. You want to find out what they're doing, how they're doing it, and then you'll let them know you know.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.