Quotes About Knowledge

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

People think of education as something they can finish.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

Voi sapete tutto. Ma a che vi serve, se avete sempre gli occhiali sul naso e l'autunno nell'anima?

You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I have studied these things - you have not.

Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)