Quotes About Knowledge

Any speculation or revelation is not exactly an affirmation or denial of a mistake. Facts are not mistakes.

The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.

A man's got to know his limitations.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

fisherman had to be a combination biologist, meteorologist, mechanic and mariner. Their livelihood, their very lives, depended on their store of practical knowledge.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Schopenhauer extended the same idea by favouring real observation over erudition, and stated confidently that the second sapped the first.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,

When he was asked about the technical secret of his jump, he said:

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

the American-affiliated students were incomparably better informed than the locals—incomparably more intelligent all round, to put it bluntly—but the one thing the Americans could not do to save their lives was recite the verse in front of them.

He knew where to drop the needle – an especially important qualification in the matter of Wagner, with whom it is an invariable rule that the most immediately accessible bits are never at the edge of the disc.

The author has discovered to his cost that if you call a zoo to ask the cubic volume of the average adult camel, they treat you as if you are a complete idiot.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.