Quotes About Knowledge

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

My mind is a warehouse of information like that, bushels of scrap paper filled with notes.

I stored the information for later use. My mind is a warehouse of information like that, bushels of scrap paper filled with notes.

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

as Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: "That I knew nothing was my advantage.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

Now, here's a more intriguing game: imagine if Amazon, Toyota or Boeing tried to create Wikipedia. Without

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

I'd never read anything like these texts, which taught me that literature demands concentration but pays you back in compound interest.

That Socrates was unpretentious almost to a fault, never believing wisdom was his alone or made him superior, but that everyone possessed it if one could only talk it out.

They didn't know that I didn't know anything, and I was hoping to use that to my advantage. The only thing I had going for me was my ignorance. This was the story of my life.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

The true net worth of the wise is the wealth that wisdom imparts!

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Quien no conoce su historia está condenado a repetir sus errores.

Children only know what you teach them.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

It is too clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, He could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.