Quotes About Knowledge

The fourteenth-century preacher, John Bromyard, used to tell the story of the shepherd who, asked if he knew who the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were, replied, 'The father and the son I know well for I tend their sheep, but I know not that third fellow; there is none of that name in our village.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought 'Al' Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five and a half years and here were two students two young adults leaving the educational system who had never heard of al Qaeda. Both by the way had passed the multiple-choice reading section of the state's high school exit exam.

An old timer is a man who's had a lot of interesting experiences -- some of them true.

Never gamble with a man who knows both sides of the cards.

Experience is another word for mistakes.

Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.

The three most fatal diseases in the West are: small pox, cholera, and the ignorance to argue with a long-haired, whisky-drinkin' liar.

You don't learn from experience; you learn from reflecting on experience.

You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially

but the fact we knew less seemed to suit us better. Now we know everything and talk to nobody.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

It's difficult to dispel arrogance if you retain ignorance.

I am passionately interested in how my Country works, and if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America, you have to know about the Civil War.

I'm not mad. I've just read different books.

The best speakers are voracious readers. Reading is like priming the pump. If we only rely on our own imagined creativity and genius, we will soon be out of material and out of work. Creativity is really at its peak when we are stimulated by the thoughts and work of others.

But while Kravitz has a need to perform, with Sam you saw nothing. Things just got done. And when he wasn't doing, he was thinking—he was doing things inside his head. In the rinks and parks of Snowdon, he learned that if you know everything about everything, people listen. And if you're willing to do everything, people let you.

I enjoy learning technical details.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.