Quotes About Knowledge

We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

The learning objective is to show how these issues affect Africa today and how Africa affects the world. For the educator the objective is to uncover how the interests and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and knowledge system, can shape the development of curricula and critical instruction in diverse school settings.

Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.

Human sensibility is our only channel to the universe. If the capacity of that channel can be increased, knowledge of the universe will expand accordingly.

You can generally tell what processes a man's mind has gone through by what he's studied, observed.

it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer. O homem que nunca lê vive apenas uma.

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!