Quotes About Knowledge

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

Someone can always take your money or belongings from you, but no one can ever steal your education.

Ida knew that she was fighting ignorance and superstition every bit as much as she was fighting poor hygiene and disease.

In our daily lives we "know" things in many different ways. We know, for example, that water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

In complete darkness, we are all the same. It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us. Don't let your eyes deceive you.

medicine I know. you tell me what a pulsar is and I'll tell you whatever you need to know about the organ of Zucker-kandl." Sulu made a polite scoffing noise and explained anyway,...

By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli's quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like Maggy, layli-layli took advantage of Kejesli's lack of knowledge of her culture, a lack Maggy did not share. Nothing new in technique, Maggy noted, but she recorded it for her growing file on lying, for its style and for its purpose, which she hoped might become clear.

The more you know, the better armed you'll be for what's to come.

Understanding the fundamentals of accounting is a form of self-defense.

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. You're going to fail through lack of specialization.1 Charlie Munger

Just because I'm not a good reader doesn't mean I'm stupid.

No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company of young men; She did. But her sharp tongue sliced through their egos and her intellectual thirst quickly soaked up what drops of knowledge they shed.

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

God already knows who did this, after all. If we pray for wisdom, He will give it to us. That's what the Bible says. So pray for wisdom!

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Many admire, few know

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.