Quotes About Knowledge

We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.

They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.

I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself." "Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy to sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.

How can school help you with the land? he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth. Do you know how to read? Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.

What gets to you is the everyday ignorance

Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.