Quotes About Knowledge

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Joe Blakley said, "I hate school!" "Just 'cause you didn't know the answer a while ago?" said Dan Rogers. Mrs. Long had caught Joe staring out the window instead of paying attention during math. "Know the answer ?" said Randall. "Joe didn't even know the question !

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,That's a' the learning I desire.

An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.

As an engineer, you have a depth of knowledge about your systems and projects that no managers can possibly have. With that knowledge comes the responsibility to act.

It doesn't take a huge amount of knowledge and skill to get a program working. Kids in high school do it all the time. Getting it right is another matter entirely. When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to create and maintain.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false. Those statements that we cannot prove false, after much effort, we deem to be true enough for our purposes.

Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and practicing.

By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.