Quotes About Knowledge

Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

to be smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming...There's nothing to look forward to anymore if you don't have dreams...Because dreams are goals...and it's not going to happen today or tomorrow it's going to happen in years and ut's something to look forward to.

To be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

That books should provide for learning, but that they should also provide for enjoyment

a person can't un-know the truth.

That's because grandmothers are the most intelligent creatures on this planet. Dolphins are a close second from what I hear.

You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Lepiej jest nie wiedzie? za du?o, przyjacielu. To znaczy, rozs?dnie jest wiedzie? tyle, ile si? da, ale jeszcze rozs?dniej jest utrzymywa? innych w niewiedzy co do w?asnej wiedzy.

to lose any language is to lose a unique way of knowing life.

It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on the mind.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

There is nothing more daring than ignorance.

The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

You wouldn't know an Ionic entablature if it bit you on your portico.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

standardized tests are not based on general knowledge. As I learned during my investigation, they are based on specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers.