Quotes About Knowledge

Humans have not fully evolved from idiots yet.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

Scared the postman by going to the door naked. I'm not sure what scared him more, my naked body or the fact that I knew where he lived.

Grammar.The difference between knowing your sh.. and knowing you're sh...

A word to the wise isn't necessary,it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in mens clothes.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.