Quotes About Knowledge

Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.' Drew smiled. I have a good and ready memory.

And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're doing. And if you take time to share your knowledge with the boys, it'll give them much more than a skill. It'll give them hope.

the knowledge of true danger may cure us of false fears

No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Se me debe exigir que busque la verdad, pero no que la encuentre.

Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

Scepticismul este primul pas spre adev?r.

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically. 'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche.

Thales did something different. He asked questions to which he didn't know the answers.

Night again, the insects are loud, the moths are killing themselves on the lamp. Two hours ago I sat on the veranda looking out at the dusk, filled with envy for each living entity—bird, bug, blossom, reptile, tree, and vine—that doesn't bear the burden of the knowledge of good and evil. The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive

I stayed in the library, crushed breathless by the smoldering power of all those words – many of them unfathomable – until Happy Hour. And then I left.

I know everything." Heinz sputtered and fumed somewhat like an automobile himself, and said, "I'm God!" Grainier thought about how to answer. Here seemed a conversation that could go no farther.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.

scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.

He understood people a little too well, and the knowledge made him nervous.

thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.

It is almost impossible to do good without wisdom. All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported by people with good intentions who lacked wisdom.

it is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.