Quotes About Knowledge

The world is full of educated derelicts

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

Still, most people need more information on how to become conformed to the image of Christ than they do on how to be converted.

Theologians have a way of resolving things that are inerrant and writing them down in books that go unread.

Those who know the least about theology and the Bible often out-preach—or at least out-fascinate—those who are well studied.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

chi siamo noi, chi è ciascuno di noi se non una combinatoria d'esperienza, d'informazioni, di letture, d'immaginazioni? Ogni vita è un'enciclopedia, una biblioteca, un inventario di oggetti, un campionario di stili, dove tutto può essere continuamente rimescolato e riordinato in tutti i modi possibili.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.

Even a fool could become dangerous when armed with a secret.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

Who can dispute that all scientific work should be studied carefully and critically considered? And having an open mind is also an asset, but not so open that your brains fall out.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. There was a playwright named Heller, American, I believe, who summed it up this way. He said, 'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.

Books taught me how to think.

Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind's single greatest achievement." From Candace Fleming's The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

The world is a great book, of which those who never leave home read but a page.

knowledge is power, and power not properly utilised is a wasted resource

You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just before some large ship hits you broadside, then a study of the rules has failed you at the worst possible time.