Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.

As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.

Oh, knowing's easy. Everyone does that ad nauseam. I just sort of hope.

In this regard, we are all a type of narcissist. None of us sees ourselves directly—our self-perceptions are filtered through acquired knowledge.

To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.

You teach what you want to learn.

A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing.

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

but ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.