Quotes About Knowledge

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.

Tyrion Lannister: Dragons do not do well in captivity. Missandei: How do you know this? Tyrion Lannister: That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

like in the institutions, universities, active and responsively responding faculties should be developed in human brain to receive respective knowledge and reality of the world. Otherwise people do not understand what the speaker is saying.

La culture n'est pas un luxe, c'est une nécessité

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

I know what's wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.

Are you going to marry her?" I would know such a thing as that," Clarence says, "only well after the fact.

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Real estate offers huge financial advantages to those who will learn the system.