Quotes About Knowledge

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Kant insisted that the mind has access to preexisting concepts and ideas, which enable us to process the information gathered by our senses. Kant called these preexisting concepts "transcendental forms." Through them, we come to knowledge by intuition, even apart from experience.

Is it a reply to these suggestions, to say, society is a Pestalozzian school; all are teachers and pupils in turn. We are equally served by receiving and by imparting. Men who know the same things, are not long the best company for each other.

The years teach much which the days never knew!

Good books replace the best universities.

We're only afraid of or repulsed by what we don't understand.

Far otherwise; your silence answers very loud. You have no oracle to utter, and your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them; for, oracles speak. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?

I would not be hurried … to underrate the Book. … As the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes, so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge… I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.

I metodi possono essere un milione e più, ma i principi sono pochi. L'uomo che afferra i principi può scegliere con successo i suoi metodi. L'uomo che prova i metodi, ignorando i principi, avrà sicuramente dei problemi.

When nature awakens our wonder and curiosity, we become scholars. This is the beginning of education. Through our senses, nature impresses herself on our minds. Her splendors shine forth everywhere we turn—from the largest masses to the tiniest particles. Then our mind begins to classify all that we survey, turning nature into organized knowledge.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it.

education is more precious than that which we call so.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge

Investing a half hour a day in reading, seven days a week, 365 days a year, is a habit that will bring more value to you and your leadership strength than any other investment of your time. It doesn't have to be books, and if it is, don't brag about how many you've read. Just search for the new ideas, new insights, and new pieces of information.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And