Quotes About Knowledge

Each man or woman who passed, she knew their history and would tell it to me, for she said that you must understand people if you would rule them.

It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise.

They have wrinkles, but no wisdom.

Useless information is my curse, I'm afraid

Every prince needs to know his lands, and there's no better way to learn than by grazing the goats.

If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the physical processes in which the fine-structure constant enters, then we would be stymied. Fortunately, we do not need to know everything before we can know something.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

Al contadino non gli far sapere, quanto sia buono il cacio colle pere' –

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.6

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Truth is omnipotent.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Philosophers, Wittgenstein said, had made the mistake of being like scientists chasing the meaning behind things – truth, mind, time, justice, reality – when none of this really matters, or is even achievable. A philosopher might waste his time wondering how he knew the child with the cut knee screaming her head off was really in pain, while the mother would rush in with comfort and bandages. The philosopher was clearly the one with lessons to learn.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.