Quotes About Knowledge

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

While you teach, you learn.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Reading is not optional.

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.