Quotes About Knowledge

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.