Quotes About Knowledge

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

It wasn't only a little she-cat I bought. It was the nobility of all cats, their infinite disinterestedness, their knowledge of how to live, their affinities with the highest type of humans.

Do not speak of what you do not know.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

We never know that one particular set of ideas contains all the right answers; even if it does today, it might not be equipped to face unexpected challenges tomorrow.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Things keep their secrets.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.

The habit of knowledge is not human but devine.

It is better to conceal ignorance.

En aquello que los hombres toman por misterios sagrados se inician impíamente