Quotes About Knowledge

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Libraries are where it all begins.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The less you know, the more you believe.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

No Man Knows My History, her magnificent, contentious biography of Joseph

I'm a bear technician, so I know what bear damage looks like.

With a writer's eye, Irving detected Jackson's depths. As his admirers say, he is truly an old Roman-to which I would add, with a little dash of the Greek; for I suspect he is as knowing as I believe he is honest.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.2 —PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, at a dinner in honor of all living recipients of the Nobel Prize, 1962

One wishes for a better outcome, for wiser heads, for a more compassionate public. Yet one wishes in vain. The only comfort, if we can call it that, is that a knowledge of our past failings may equip us to confront evil without delay when evil comes again. For it will.

I THINK IT IS MONTAIGNE who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head

The world was not perfect, nor was it perfectible, but on we went, in the face of inequities and inequalities, seeking to expand freedom at home, to defend liberty abroad, to conquer disease and go to the stars. For notably among nations, the United States has long been shaped by the promise, if not always by the reality, of forward motion, of rising greatness, and of the expansion of knowledge, of wealth, and of happiness.

The trust that Abraham Lincoln had in himself and in the people was surprising and grand, but it was also enlightened and well founded. He knew the American people better than they knew themselves, and his truth was based upon this knowledge.

Lincoln replied, "Yes, I have; and I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.