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Quotes About Knowledge

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?
~ Donald J. Trump
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
~ Donald Knuth
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
~ Donald Knuth
Intuition is the GPS of Life.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
~ Munshi Premchand
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
~ Elif Safak
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.
~ Louise Penny, Still Life
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
~ Orrin Woodward
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
~ Sherman Alexie, Flight
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.
~ Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
~ Socrates
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience
~ Henry Ford
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
~ Protagoras
O be wise, what can I say more?
~ Jacob
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
~ Ellen Douglas
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
~ T. S. Eliot
Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.
~ Yogi Berra
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
~ Milton H. Erickson
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
~ Seneca the Younger
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
~ Lee Iacocca