Quotes About Knowledge

He learns a bit more slowly than a shepherd dog, but what he learns he knows forever. The Rottweiler is a very fine character dog, but not everybody is suitable for this type of dog.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person.

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

but I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

Archie." He was gruff. "No man can hold himself accountable for the results of his psychological defects, especially those he shares with all his fellow men, such as lack of omniscience. It is a vulgar fallacy that what you don't know can't hurt you; but it is true that what you don't know can't convict you.

Probably no man will ever corral truth, but Protagoras came closer to it than Plato.

that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

and when Archie Goodwin wonders about anything he finds out.

Wolfe's head moved. 'You've seen that play, Archie?' 'Yes, sir. I would say a quarter to ten, maybe twenty to." 'Have you seen it, Saul?' 'Yes, sir. Twenty to ten.' 'You know that?' 'Yes, sir. Just my habit of noticing things.' 'Don't disparage it. The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold--if you have one...

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold—if you have one.

Telephone calls were to be handled by me, since he knew nothing that I didn't know. (This jarred my aplomb, since it was the first time he had ever admitted it.)

She gave me a little smile, the dimples coming, and said, 'We don't really know ourselves, do we?' 'It depends,' I said. 'Some of us know too much, and some not enough.

You should know that your only safe secrets are those you have yourself forgotten.

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

Perhaps you don't know all there is to know about a woman after watching her at an evening of bridge, but you should know more than when you sat down.