Quotes About Knowledge

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Technology is dominated by two types of people those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Truly, we are rich - far richer than we think; rich in what we already possess, richer still in the possibilities of production of our actual mechanical outfit; richest of all in what we might win from our soil, from our manufactures, from our science, from our technical knowledge, were they but applied to bringing about the wellbeing of all.

When you go into a public library - not indeed the National Library of Paris, but, say, into the British Museum or the Berlin Library - the librarian does not ask what services you have rendered to society before giving you the book, or the fifty books, which you require; he even comes to your assistance if you do not know how to manage the catalogue.

Las letras y las ciencias no tomarán su verdadero lugar en la obra del desarrollo humano hasta el día en que, libres de toda servidumbre mercenaria, sean exclusivamente cutivadas por los que la aman y para aquellos que las aman.

It is not difficult, indeed, to see the absurdity of naming a few men and saying to them, "Make laws regulating all our spheres of activity, although not one of you knows anything about them!

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

They smell of the lamp.

if you memorize three hundred Tang poems, you might be able to write a little.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research.

Cliff didn't know enough to write critical pieces for Films in Review, but he knew enough to know Hiroshima Mon Amour was a piece of crap. He knew enough to know Antonioni was a fraud.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

It is plagiarism when you take something out of a book and use it as your own. If you take it out of several books then it is research.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

The Sangam Corpus is one body of literature that could possibly represent the ethos of the IVC [Indus Valley Civilization] such as maritime trade, eminence of crafts and skills, technology and knowledge, spread of literacy, Mother Goddess worship, participatory festivals and pass-time activities, secular orientation, enjoyment associated with group-bathing, place of flora and fauna in narratives, writing and graffiti skills.