Quotes About Knowledge

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms