Quotes About Knowledge

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

Governments may know a lot more about our lives than we care to contemplate, but frequently they know less about the world than we presume.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

A writer who lives long enough becomes an academic subject and almost qualified to teach it himself. –

Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.