Quotes About Knowledge

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.

If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.

A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

As hard as it is to believe today, people didn't really know that there was a mob organization in those days.

Why should you waste your time in idleness, and torment yourself with unprofitable wishes? Books are at hand; books from which most sciences and languages can be learned. Read, analyse, digest; collect facts, and investigate theories: ascertain the dictates of reason, and supply yourself with the inclination and the power to adhere to them.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result.

A prerequisite for a successful scientific career is an enthusiastic willingness to pore through the minutiae of subjects that 99.9 percent of Earth's population find screamingly dull.

Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.