Quotes About Knowledge

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.