Quotes About Knowledge

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Read, read read. Read everything.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

As my father [Jav?harl?l Nehr?] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.