Quotes About Knowledge

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

A book holds a house of gold.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

Deep doubts… deep wisdom; small doubts… little wisdom."

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

A great way to avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies. Analogies derive their power from schemas: A pomelo is like a grapefruit. A good news story is structured like an inverted pyramid. Skin damage is like aging. Analogies make it possible to understand a compact message because they invoke concepts that you already know.