Quotes About Knowledge

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

O! more than Gothic ignorance.

The republic of letters.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The problem with wise people. They always know what is wrong. So I never employ an expert in full bloom.

Without scientific study, an employer does not know why he is paying a wage and the employee does not know why he is getting it.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made—and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas.

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