Quotes About Knowledge

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

He wrote in the fly leaf: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! "That means 'Knowledge is power!' Oh, I do believe that, Marion.

to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru versus tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders.

Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school.

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est!

Knowledge shall be promoted by frequent exercise Art polishes and improves nature Fortune is a fair but fickle mistrefs Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

One thing I know, I love to learn. I love literature. With these books I can sail the seven seas, chase a white whale . . .

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion

Why was it one had to leave something, or have it taken away, to really appreciate it? But tonight, she's the storyteller, because he's hungry to hear every detail of her medical world, bringing his curiosity like a moth to anything that shines of new knowledge.

Literacy alters patterns of life that have gone undisturbed for generations.

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.