Quotes About Knowledge

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

There's nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn't in their books. It's better to read a good writer than meet one.

Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.

good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands—you could not hold faith in Jesus in your hands, not in quite the same way you could hold good books.

Finches are seed eaters, but Dr. Daruwalla didn't know this, nor did the doctor know that the green parrot perching on the vine had feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward. These were the details he missed, and they contributed to the growing list of things he didn't know. This was the kind of Everyman he was—a little lost, a little misinformed (or uninformed), almost everywhere he ever was.

How I live matters more than what I do. I have ambitions for the quality of how I live. I have no ambition for making money ...and I'd have time to read enough to be a constant source of information, ideas and language.

Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: "I don't know, exactly.

It is occasionally necessary for me to tell Torontonians of the presence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; they tend to think of the Great Lakes as the waters of the world.

I know three things. I know that my voice doesn't change, and I know when I'm going to die. I wish I knew why my voice never changes, I wish I knew how I was going to die; but God has allowed me to know more than most people know—so I'm not complaining. The third thing I know is that I am God's instrument; I have faith that God will let me know what I'm supposed to do, and when I'm supposed to do it. Happy New Year!

But Americans are not great historians, and so, for years—educated by my neighbor—I thought that sagamore was an Indian word for lake.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of people she had met.

Robertson Davies

His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

The slavery of ignorance is as wicked as any other kind. Perhaps it's the crudest slavery of all, because any man can see an iron cuff on his own leg, but it's hard to detect an invisible one." She watched for a reaction.

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.

Pop used to say he hated to take time from books to earn a living. Man's never lonely with a book in his pocket, he'd say. Books gives a man ten thousand friends. Some are smart, some are funny, some are just pleasant for passing the time, but they're all good.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

Ha a demokrácia a világ leegyszer?sítése elleni állandó harcot jelenti, úgy a nacionalizmus állandó harc azért, hogy megsemmisítsék a sokrét?séget, olyan akarat, amely bizonyos dolgokról nem akar hallani, választott tudatlanság, nem az ártatlanságé.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.