Quotes About Knowledge

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

All I can do is read books and write books and edit books and critique books." —Toni Morrison

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read what I write

Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

The best way to avoid meaningless repetition is to continue getting to know God. The better you know a person, the more the two of you have to discuss. Whenever you learn something new about our great God, include that in your prayer life.

History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect,' the English historian C.V. Wedgwood observed. 'We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

History is not written as it was experienced, nor should it be. The inhabitants of the past know better than we do what it was like to live there, but they were not well placed, most of them, to understand what was happening to them and why.

An older generation of free market economists used to point out that what is wrong with socialist planning is that it requires the sort of perfect knowledge (of present and future alike) that is never vouchsafed to ordinary mortals. They were right. But it transpires that the same is true for market theorists:

And she envied Caleb's knowledge. She only had bits and pieces, scraps and rags. He had a whole cloth.

It's how I keep my mind from becoming mush. Learn and think. Think and learn.

Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I

I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat.

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

Humans desired reasons; reasons for pain, reasons for sadness, reasons for life, reasons for death. Why were their lives filled with suffering? Why were their deaths absurd? They wanted reasons for the destiny that kept transcending their knowledge and that was GOD.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

Some ignorance is invincible.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Remember, to know and not to do is really not to know.