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Quotes About Knowledge

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
~ Tammy Faye Bakker
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.
~ Ani DiFranco
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
~ Taylor Swift
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.
~ William Missouri Downs
The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.
~ William Motherwell
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
~ William Osler
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
~ William Osler
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all
~ William Osler
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
~ William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
~ William Osler
Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.
~ William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
~ William Osler
La ciencia declaró ilegítimo e insubsistente todo el saber que la tradición nos había legado sobre nuestro cuerpo, la confinó al territorio de la superstición, y se erigió en la única propietaria de un saber válido sobre la salid y la enfermedad, sobre la vida y la muerte.
~ William Ospina
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
~ William Paley
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.
~ William Paley (paraphrase)
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
~ William Penn
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~ William Penn
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
~ William Penn
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
~ William Penn
advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
~ William Penn
Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.
~ William Penn