Quotes About Knowledge

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Learn your topic through self-study through scrupulous analysis and learn about your goal

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.