Quotes About Knowledge

For it is the books you have read, as much as the people you have met, that constitute autobiography.

High-quality national surveys of high school seniors confirm that kids from less educated homes are less knowledgeable about and interested in politics, less likely to trust the government, less likely to vote, and much less likely to be civically engaged in local affairs than their counterparts from college-educated homes.

It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

Though this universe I own, I possess not a thing, for I cannot know the unknown if to the known I cling.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.

Unos dicen que el mundo sucumbirá en el fuego. Otros que en el hielo. Por lo que yo he probado del deseo, estoy a favor de los que apuestan por el fuego. Pero si por dos veces el mundo pereciera, creo saber suficiente sobre el odio, como para saber que para la destrucción, el hielo también es grande y sería suficiente.

Magic is Wisdom in Transit, for there's no black or white Magic. Its just Wisdom in Transit.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think.

Imagination is more important than information." Einstein said that, and he should know.

I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of the light. But light –truth, understanding, knowledge–is there, and it will only shine in many dark places if I reflect it.

He who poses as a fool is not a fool.

Become who you are by learning who you are.