Quotes About Knowledge

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

while hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that builds wisdom.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

Yet the bookshelf is also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

A biblical metaphysics implies a biblical theory of knowledge and a biblical ethic.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

In my world there would be as many libraries as there are Starbucks.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.