Quotes About Knowledge

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

One cannot know everything.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

for whenever men are right they are not young

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.