Quotes About Knowledge

Quante volte bisogna tornare a imparare, a scoprire e a riscoprire ciò che già si sa, quanti travestimenti bisogna strappar via per poter penetrare le cose fino all'osso?

Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.

they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions;

Knowledge, when it is of the right kind, is the handmaid to love, for without love knowledge puffs up

Being only a chemist hampers me.

Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me.  I was a hospital in myself.  All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then

And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If

Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.

Jerome Tuccille

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

The more paleontological discoveries that are made, the more that we realize our knowledge of dinosaur types is fairly complete, and no ancestral forms ever will be found because they do not exist.

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

Living within artificial, reconstructed, arbitrary environments that are strictly the products of human conception, we have no way to be sure that we know what is true and what is not. We have lost context and perspective. What we know is what other humans tell us.

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

No, no. It's not your fault. 'Books, books, I need my books.' Have you re-read those books yet, by the way? - Jerry, Seinfeld

Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void with great speed

Friends, family, school, they were just obstacles in the way of getting more books.

Mr, B, what's wrong with me? [...] Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all.

What's the matter? said the old man. Can't you make up your mind what kind you want? The kid laughed. I want them all. He threw his hands out. I'm learning everything! He opened one of the books. Look...geometry...triangles...

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

Great fiction tells unknown truths.

I never said that I knew everything. I'm just confident that I'm well-informed on many subjects.

Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!