Quotes About Knowledge

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Education is the most important thing you can have," he said.

I read, in a fascinating book by F David Peat called Blackfoot Physics, that although we in the West think of the brain as the seat of learning, in indigenous cultures it is the belly.

As Einstein said, knowledge is limited, but imagination is not.

We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.

It is not the story I know or the story you tell me that matters; it is what I already know, what I don't want to hear you say. Let it exist this way, concealed; let me always be embarrassed, knowing that you know that I know but pretend not to know.

still believe reading is the best form of direct brain-to-brain communication humans have yet figured out

Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)

I want to be with books, have them all around me.

Porque um dia com leitura é sempre um pouquinho melhor do que um dia sem leitura, e eu desejo a você uma infinidade de dias maravilhosos.

you really have never heard of me, have you?" "I totally almost have," protested Carmen.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

Wie oft wohl muss einer das, was er weiß, noch einmal lernen, wieder und wieder entdecken, wie viele Verkleidungen abreißen, bis er Dinge wirklich versteht bis auf die Knochen? Reicht überhaupt eine Lebenszeit dafür aus?