Quotes About Knowledge

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

Don't underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God's Word.

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

I prefer the skyline of a shelf of books.

In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.

All our progress of luxury and knowledge . . . we have not been lifted by as much as an inch above the level of the darkest ages . . . The last hundred years have wrought no change in the passions, the cruelties, and the barbarous impulses of mankind. There is no change from the savagery of the Middle Ages. We enter a new century equipped with every wonderful device of science and art but the pirate, the savage, and the tyrant still survives.

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?

While it is a truism that man has not learned much more than the sexual act, and that fire burns when you stick your hand into it, it behooves the scholar to immerse himself in the analyses of the problem, rather than the problem itself. One

He had been born with a quivering bump of curiosity that stopped throbbing only when it was satisfied

Was it even a Cutlass? He could tell trucks from cars and sedans from compacts, but beyond that he was guessing.

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors...

You need the combination of know-how and motivation.

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head by reading

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

Information was control.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see,we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

In fact I did not need to look, nor could I avoid them by not looking: I knew them by heart.

I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.