Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Science is our century's art.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

The greatest art is philosophy.