Quotes About Knowledge

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is the mind of an old man or an old woman who knows it.

The beauty that I am speaking of now was that of a woman who has come into knowledge and strength and who, knowing her hardships, trusts her strength and goes about her work even with a kind of happiness, serene somehow and secure.