Quotes About Knowledge

Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days.

An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.

Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-twp. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth.

The teaching goes on

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

ÎÈ›i poÈ›i imagina s? ai un timp infinit la dispoziÈ›ie pentru a înv??a?

Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.

Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.

So what is the truth?" Mr Umezaki had once asked him. "How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn't want to be known?

Not all new knowledge is beautiful, or even to be desired. Yet there comes a time when, no matter how hard it is to accept what we see, no matter how much we do not want to believe it, our studies will cease and we will learn no more. Though the world may point and criticize, if the truth has been found, sometimes you must shout it from the rooftops in the face of all opposition. The pursuit of knowledge requires an iron will that always looks forward and never falters.

One has to walk through the fields of knowledge to pick its flowers. Run, and you will miss the best blossoms.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help. Textbooks, those whores, as particularly explicit in acknowledging this, and it is with a textbook that you, at this moment, after several years in the city, are walking down the street.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

All books are investments (p.134)

Why don't you read a novel? There's more truth in fiction than in fact.

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

Smithsonian magazine, July 2001, page 55.)

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.