Quotes About Knowledge

Men who start by burning books end by burning other men

Luz et veritas, Light and truth

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

In the final analysis,power is a misunderstanding: you think you know then you realize you have made a thumping mistake.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Only idiots think they know everything I admit that I know nothing just so I am not an idiot

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

A life well-lived is directly related to a Bible well-read.

That's the trouble," Chambers replied. "You have allowed part of your brain to stagnate for want of use." Within a few minutes, Oswald had scribbled out a list of more than fifty books—philosophical

It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

To know and admire history's heroes involves a knowledge of the full historical context they lived in, warts and all, in order to see clearly how they changed that world for the better.

It is most useful," Geshe Wangpo told Sam, "to share one's knowledge with others. Otherwise, what is the point in having it?

Four tools," Geshe Wangpo said, looking at

Wisdom ages well.

Truth never seems obvious until it is known.

All their lives they had lived with the certain knowledge that there had to be a secret symbol on the outside of their house that said "Suckers live here" in cat, dog, and several other animal languages.

Where did you learn that?" Vein asked, still staring. "I read," Bruno said evenly. "I talk less than the rest of you. It gives me time.

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.

Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.

the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley