Quotes About Knowledge

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

Professionally, I have no age.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on