Quotes About Knowledge

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.