Quotes About Knowledge

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.

For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.

It is the same with all the emotions," he said. "The experiences of others never give a complete account. Until a man has deliberately turned and faced for himself the fiends that chase him down the years, he has no knowledge of what they really are, or of what they can do.

This ancient script was graven in his soul.

What we know instinctively," she continued, "is simply what we are trying to remember. Knowledge is memory.

It is never difficult to credit strangers with the qualities and knowledge that oneself craves for, and no doubt Henriot's active fancy went busily to work.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible. ("The Wendigo")

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.