Quotes About Knowledge

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

If you can teach me a new word, I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable.

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.

It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? What justifies the risk of life? Some answer, the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

Entiendes lo que te quiero decir? Si el globo terrestre desapareciera un día, si, por ejemplo, la Tierra se estrellase contra un cometa, se despedazara y se volatilizase o simplemente se precipitara en el abismo, si por tanto nuestro globo desapareciera sin dejar otro rastro que este sótano repleto de cartapacios, este sótano bastaría para comprender lo que había sido este mundo.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.

What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.