Quotes About Knowledge

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

burro, burrow: A /burro/ is an ass. A /burrow/ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man

Truth fears no questions.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

A prudent question is one half the wisdom.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.

An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.