Quotes About Knowledge

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion—"In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

To most humans, curiosity about higher things comes naturally, it's indifference to them that must be learned

The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in, less engagement with, and frankly less knowledge of the great out there. Neither

Because teaching teaches teachers to teach, this

One of the first questions that bewildered beginners often ask is: how do I find information on all the built-in tools?

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

Plato called this anamnesis, remembering what and who we are, beneath our lives' shifting camouflage, beyond what can be taken away.

bypasses the accumulation of traditional cultural capital (that is, a relatively rarefied knowledge of great authors and their works) in favor of a more immediate identification with the charisma of authorship.

You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?

I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6

In plain English, Anyon promoted her dumbed-down brand of Marxist ideology in the classroom in lieu of a traditional approach to attaining knowledge. For example, she wrote: "Capitalism's private ownership of production is… distinct from a socialist/communist system as imagined by Marx, in which everyone contributes to the production of economic goods according to their ability, and is provided profits and goods according to what each person needs."44

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

The first step in writing is reading.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.