Quotes About Knowledge

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

My father had very little formal education.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I've never read one book about my father.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.