Quotes About Knowledge

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

Experience is largely non-transferable.

You cannot inherit experience

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Truth divorced from experience will always remain in the realm of doubt.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping—that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.

There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?