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Quotes About Knowledge

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.
~ Orrin Woodward
Money comes to those who know what to do with it.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
~ Will Durant
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
~ bell hooks
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
~ Louis L'Amour
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
~ James Altucher
My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
~ Mary Steenburgen
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
~ Pete Hamill
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
~ Umberto Eco
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
~ David Cottrell
Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.
~ Roberto Wallace
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~ Maya Angelou
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
~ Dorothy Height
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
~ David Rockefeller
Education is the mother of leadership.
~ Wendell Willkie
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
~ Francois Rabelais
Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
~ Cotton Mather
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
~ Rita Dove
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~ Aeschylus
Ignorance is the mother of presumption
~ Marie de Gournay
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
~ Laozi
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."
~ Andrew Sullivan
I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.
~ Jack Nicholson