Quotes About Knowledge

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?'

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.