Quotes About Knowledge

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.