Quotes About Knowledge

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

Denis Lacorne

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious

He's all wrong for you," Travis said. "You're the expert? Last I checked, you resigned from that position.

Lise, too, had been invited to join the Project but declined. She knew what they were developing. She wanted no part of it.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.

When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.

Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos

According to the acclaimed author and philosopher Napoleon Hill, "Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power if and when it is organized into definite plans of action and directed at a definite end.

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself. He feels lost amid his own abundance. With more means at his disposal, more knowledge, more technique than ever, it turns out that the world today goes the same way as the worst of worlds that have been; it simply drifts.41

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and ""experts"" have affirmed it. ""Studies show"" is to the modern secular college graduate what ""Scripture says"" is to the religious fundamentalist.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Wisdom begins with reverence for God." No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).

There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education.