Quotes About Knowledge

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

As old as the itch.

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.