Quotes About Knowledge

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Frecuentemente hay más que aprender de las preguntas inesperadas de un niño que de los discursos de un hombre" (John Locke)

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death.

Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.