Quotes About Knowledge

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.