Quotes About Knowledge

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

At first, all wonder and curiosity, we are easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, which often affect our lives, as colours laid at the root of bulbous plants are said to transmit their tints to the blossom; next comes the age of knowledge, when reason struggles with passion, and is not always the victor; lastly, the decay, when passion is extinct, and we live from day to day on our memories, and then drop into dust.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a penciling.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.