Quotes About Knowledge

the two most taboo lines in all media in America are I don't know and I don't care.

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I don't know anything about computers. I don't even know how often to change the oil.

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us, to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,Out-topping knowledge.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

But often in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness — a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves, and to prevent our getting the notion of a paramount right reason.

Spells? Mistrust them. Mind is the spell which governs earth and heaven. Man has a mind with which to plan his safety. Know that, and help thyself. Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II

An individual who is financially educated can tell the difference between financial choices that are beneficial and detrimental to his financial future.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.