Quotes About Knowledge

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Repetition is the mother of education.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Mother lode of learning.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.