Quotes About Knowledge

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The more I see, the less I know.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

He who thinks little errs much.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.