Quotes About Knowledge

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.