Quotes About Knowledge

Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

We begged you, Lord, to divide right from wrong and instead you divided the waters above the firmament from those beneath it. We begged for the knowledge of good and evil, and you gave us all kinds of rules and regulations like the rules of soccer

Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.

Mai inainte n-am stiut - acum stiu, dupa cum stiti si voi: rasul poate avea culori diferite. Nu este decat ecoul indepartat al exploziei din interiorul vostru: poate sunt rachete de sarbatoare - rosii, albastre, aurii, poate au sarit in sus franturi de trup omenesc...

Oh, knowledge! This knowledge of yours is only cowardice. Don't argue, it's true. You're simply trying to enclose infinity behind a wall, and you are terrified to glance outside the wall. Yes! Just try and take a look, and you will shut your eyes. Yes!

Bilgi de neymiÅŸ! Bilgi dediÄŸin korkakl?kt?r. Ne derseniz deyin, doÄŸrusu bu. Siz sonsuzluÄŸu bir duvarla s?n?rlamaya çal???yorsunuz, duvar?n arkas?na bakmaya ise korkuyorsunuz.

Truth is one, and the true path is one. And that truth is two times two and that true path is four.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

A quiet fool is half a sage.

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not.

To say we know a person is to write that person off. This is at times life's necessity. We run out of time or patience or curiosity; or we depart, willingly or not, from the situation that makes investigation possible and necessary. A person written off may become a character - depending on the charity of memory.

They'll live their lives in their ignorance, but not I. Why do I read books if not to live up to principles that are worth striving for?

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

Any person who has information can connect with any other person who wants it, and anyone who wants to make it mean something in some context, can do so.

Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.

Why can fifty thousand volunteers successfully coauthor Wikipedia, the most serious online alternative to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turn around and give it away for free?