Quotes About Knowledge

La experiencia es lo único que nos procura conocimiento, y en cuanto mas tiempo sobre la tierra más experiencia tendrás

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed the shaggy man.

La experiencia es la única fuente de conocimientos y cuanto más permanezcas sobre la tierra, más experiencia tendrás

But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything? I

do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow. "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know.

I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form.

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.