Quotes About Knowledge

Education is political.

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother's bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

All philosophers and all sociologists draw their scientific ideas from the sources available at their time.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. — Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." —JAMES TOUR

Christians are not supposed to "just have faith." Christians are commanded to know what they believe and why they believe it. They are commanded to give answers to those who ask (1 Pet. 3:15), and to demolish arguments against the Christian faith (2 Cor. 10:4-5).