Quotes About Knowledge

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

No furniture is so charming as books.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Live always in the best company when you read.

What you don't know would make a great book.

Knowing is the key to caring, and with caring there is hope that people will be motivated to take positive actions. They might not care even if they know, but they can't care if they are unaware.

Thanks to generations of curious, daring, intrepid explorers of the past, we may know enough, soon enough, to chart safe passage for ourselves far into the future.

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!

Awed, I asked, 'How could you possibly have known enough about Jarel to trust him?' 'I didn't. I trusted you.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.

He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.

Sir Maugre's erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it.

Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you? - It saves me from conversation.