Quotes About Knowledge

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

A good business book teaches simple truths.