Quotes About Knowledge

And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

I met evil and discovered God. I call it my discovery, but of course, it's nothing new, and it's not mine. Everyone has to make it for himself. People use different languages to describe it. I suppose all the great world religions began with individuals making inspired contact with a spiritual reality and then trying to keep that knowledge alive. Most of it gets lost in rules and practices and addiction to power.

Her cleverness, her love and knowledge of music, literature, her liveliness and charm when he was securely hers masked her desperation.

Hiába csillogott oly tetszetÅ'sen az értelem, nem oldott meg semmit.

didn't use, and hadn't even heard, the word "totalitarianism." I probably would have thought it had something to do with refusing a drink.

I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance.

Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals.

He had never learned anything new at a meeting.

Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.

She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.

Honey, we can fill this place with what we know and you don't.

Attosecond?" Gaston asked. "I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said. "One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader. Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?" "No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it.

Julie looked like she was about to cry and waved her arms. Whatever. Look, I'm not stupid. I know things! Adult things. - Like what? Like sex. I know about sex. I just stared at her. I wasn't opening that can of worms.

No, I never expect people to be idiots," George said. "I do expect them to lack some of the necessary information, because experience has demonstrated to me that assuming someone in a key position knows everything you do leads to disaster.

I'm 70 years old. I'm a young man, and I've still got a lot to learn, that's right, and I'm learning every day.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.