Quotes About Knowledge

Conceptual thinking is adequate when we are engaged in an effort to enhance our knowledge about the world. Situational thinking is necessary when we are engaged in an effort to understand issues on which we stake our very existence.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

Get the books, and read and study them till, you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New-Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places. ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

GeleceÄŸi tahmin etmek imkans?zd?r. Ama ÅŸimdiki zaman? çok iyi bilirsen geleceÄŸi kontrol edebilirsin.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

His frustrations are concealed, his raw lust for colonies moderated by the knowledge that he must depend on subterfuge and flattery.

Ignorance is not bliss; it's a missed opportunity

Europeans had lost the ability to read Greek