Quotes About Knowledge

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

It would be better not to know how to write. Then one would not have to sign death sentences."16

I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn't know the answer.

You write what you know because -- like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.

Laws die, but Books never.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so, consequently, be no child of God. When Christ said, "Do you know all these things?" and the disciples had answered yes, he added, "Blessed are ye if ye do them." He doth not lay the blessing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them: "He that knoweth his Master's will, and doeth not." A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian.

I have known secrets myself, so outrageous, so bulging with scandal, that, had I not promptly forgotten them, they would have undone society twenty times over! There is a titillating pleasure in the keeping of such terrific truths and it increases one's inward pride to think that one knows of another what, if told, would change the aspect of a life.

The villager may have this hidden wisdom as clearly as the man who has seen and done, who has fought, loved and travelled far and well.

Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places.

If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.

Ignorance is the parent of fear...

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep. I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?

But for anything deeper, I am not certain whether to know the world and to know human nature be not two distinct branches of knowledge, which while they may coexist in the same heart, yet either may exist with little or nothing of the other.

While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." —Hackluyt

truth comes in with darkness.

below calls ditto. I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can

Hay una sabiduría que es dolor; pero hay un dolor que es locura.

How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?

La ignorancia engendra el miedo.

He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best.