Quotes About Knowledge

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I want to believe him. I know stuff happens to people and they can't always be who they were or who they think they're supposed to be. But knowing that doesn't mean I'm okay with it. It's more like what Mr. Krueger says about black holes: We can't wish them away, so we'd better learn as much as we can about where they are and how they work so we don't get sucked in.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know.

I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.

You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time.

you want most of all (see Psalm 84:11). Paul admitted that he had to "learn" the secret of contentment in every situation. So with all of us. That learning process can sometimes be painful, but it is worth all we have to go through to get that knowledge of God's new plan.

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table. "It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God.

The level of my worldly ignorance cannot easily be overestimated." Nor that of the damage that ignorance could do

When we want to express our knowledge, we must be able to translate or reduce it to concrete terms, accessible to our senses and rational through the cerebral function. "Sympathetic'' experience always remains uncertain and open to discussion as long as it is not "objectified" experience.

The real problem is that humans do not yet know enough about wolves, even though these animals have been intensively studied now for more than forty years. This means that there are no "wolf experts." Instead, there are some people who know a good deal about wolves, but there is no one person who knows ALL about them.

T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another?

Knowledgeable persons are able to eliminate ignorance through their knowledge, so they must build the character of their children. They must develop their talents through proper education and devotion. This will make their inbuilt talents worthy of worship and respect.

For the benefit of the mankind, I shall describe those secret mysteries of politics, the knowledge of which will make man omniscient. If he follows the thoughts on moral behaviour in this manuscript, then most certainly, he shall attain success.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)