Quotes About Knowledge

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Good counsel has no price.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

If the young only knew; if the old only could.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Few people know how to be old.

An old codger, rampant, and still learning.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

You should read it, though there is much that is skip-worthy.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.