Quotes About Knowledge

My family's ignorance of the world they lived in was always a source of worry to me, and I never lost an opportunity of imparting information.

IgnoranÈ›a familiei mele în ceea ce priveÈ™te lumea în care tr?iesc a constituit întotdeauna un motiv de îngrijorare pentru mine È™i n-am l?sat niciodat? s?-mi scape vreo ocazie de a le împ?rt??i cunoÈ™tinÈ›e.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.

How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine

I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.