Quotes About Knowledge

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

Every happening is a lesson, a message.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.