Quotes About Knowledge

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The wisdom of a human...is boundless.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

Lumea trebuie s-o p?trunzi cu mintea, nu s? o ba?i cu picioarele! Prostul poate s? mearg? ?i-n cap, c? tot nu-i intr? nimic în el... Doar m?r?cini...

Biblioteca Ce bine c? toate aceste c?r?i Au fost scrise! Nu trebuie s? le mai scriu eu S-o iau de la cap?t, S?-mi fr?mânt mintea. M? uit la fiecare titlu – Vârându-mi nasul ?i, silabisind, ?i, cu fiecare tom, Parc? mi se ia o piatr? de pe inim?.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

es imposible contentar a todos antes que con un coro afirmativo es mejor que nos digan un quién sabe

Por qué las palmas de mis manos tienen una memoria más fiel que mi memoria?

The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes. A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical proposition with Euclid asked, "But what do I gain from this?" Euclid told his slave to give the boy a coin, so that the student would see an actual profit.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things.

The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ...

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

No one is truly interesting until he is in graduate school," pronounced Wilson.

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.