Quotes About Knowledge

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

You have to live to really know things, my love

Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. . . .

I read for pleasure,' wrote Margaret Atwood, 'and that is the moment at which I learn most. Subliminal learning.

I read for pleasure," wrote Margaret Atwood, "and that is the moment at which I learn most. Subliminal learning.

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…

How do you know when you're getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn't it?

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Stupidity is the monocle of Intelligence.

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril" We failed on both counts. I know I sure did. As generals, we did not know our enemy—never pinned him down, never focused our efforts, and got all too good at making new opponents before we'd handled the old ones.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.

This works because when you communicate a skill to someone, you come to understand it more deeply yourself.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

I read more than Mandy Lethbridge, and Im faster at it too.

It is never too late to be wise.