Quotes About Knowledge

We learn most where we know the least.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know…" I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.

We learn where we know the least.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

We learn most where we know the least. For

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

If you love books, I will give you some to take with you, and one day I will introduce you to the writers of the books.

I hope the day will come when everyone can have books that tell the truth.

The fundamental lessons of life are taught in the class of truth.

The master of life is a master of truth.

The secret of life is knowing and applying the secrets of life.

Truth is the most valuable secret.

Truth unlocks life's best doors.