Quotes About Knowledge

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

You can't learn less.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

Let my temptation be a book.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.