Quotes About Knowledge

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have, can be

Scared would be better than stupid.

The older I get the more I realize that ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it beats the alternative.

Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know...' he began. I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

because they knew the sea better than they knew land;

It's none of your business what I'm aware of.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who find themselves ill at ease, unless they are let into the whole secret from first to last, of everything which concerns you.

To such, however, as do not choose to go so far back into these things, I can give no better advice, than that they skip over the remaining parts of this chapter; for I declare before-hand, 'tis wrote only for the curious and inquisitive.

Ä°ÅŸte senin yanl???n da burada, diye kar??l?k verirdi babam - çünkü Foro Scientiae (bilim alan?)'de CÄ°NAYET diye bir ÅŸey yoktur, yaln?zca ÖLÜM vvard?r kardeÅŸim.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.

Fruity said, "It went in one ear and out the other." Baba said, "Not surprising. There's very little in between to stop it.

Tomorrow we're to visit the Dardanelles. Jack Aird speaks of them as though I should know them, but I really don't recall them. One meets so many people.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.