Quotes About Knowledge

Orson Scott Card

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

La ignorancia y la mentira no pueden salvar a nadie. El conocimiento lo hace.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Only the shallow know themselves

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Wisdom comes with winters

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

You are what you read.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.