Quotes About Knowledge

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Incompetence," he argued, "knows no barrier of time or place.

But Trump had gone to a military high school, and he felt that made him as much a military expert as if he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.

And there is an extraordinarily angry and aggressive quality in the knowledge of modern man; he is angry with what he does not know; he hates and rejects it. He has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

Oni oduzimaju dah jedno drugome" bilo bi najpribližnije, ali pošto njega ve? znamo, a nju ne o?ekujemo ovde, ne?emo sa time oti?i daleko. Oni se dobro znaju, to je jasno. Ono što niko ne može da vidi jesu krila koja on crta iza nje, krila an?ela koga nikada ne?e zboraviti.

How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.

Life is a matter of exchanges. Youth for age, ignorance for knowledge. Endless exchanges.

If we fear something, it is all the more imperative we study it thoroughly.

Librarians, of all people, understood the value of knowing, even if that information could not yet be used.

It was so easy, she thought with some disdain, to find out about people. It was all out there, everything about them. You just had to look. You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.