Quotes About Knowledge

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Scholarship is polite argument.

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 where in I went.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

You see what you know!

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

An art book is a museum without walls.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.