Quotes About Knowledge

Don't teach your granddad how to fish.

It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out right to know, and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Do you want to guess what's in here? I asked Dash. I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new supply of red notebooks in there, and you want us to fill them in with clues about the works of, say, Nicholas Sparks. Who? I asked. Please, no more broody poets. I couldn't keep up. You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is? Dash asked. I shook my head. Please don't ever find out, he said.

From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books." "And escape?

You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said.

I could always find peace in books." "And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.

More than half the candle remained. She could read an hour before it guttered, longer if she took another candle from the drawer. How many had she burned already this month? Her hours of night reading seemed to grow ever more necessary, for each day's study compelled her to explore these volumes further, and with a fierce attention impossible when others were about.

Do not consider then, however learned you are, that your knowledge is complete. For learning is the river of G-d and we drink of it throughout our lives.

To study with an able mind is to escape prison, for a time.

history, soulless god though it was, never failed to offer what must be understood.

Read the newspaper, Aaron's father liked to say, you'll grow to be an educated man.

Ignorance is now your great enemy, and I do none any favor by flattering you that you are not ignorant.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ' He hesitated, 'because you mayn't find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.

Saber es mucho más que conocer, como conocer es mucho más que calcular y poder predecir. Saber es saborear y, como diremos enseguida, también amar.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know.

we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.