Quotes About Knowledge

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Information wants to eat brie.

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.