Quotes About Knowledge

Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.

Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man.

to know how tall a tree is I must fall from the top; that is, desire burns.

La honradez es un lujo de los ricos. El comerciante siempre trata de obtener el mejor precio por su mercadería, por sí mismo y por su familia. Los turistas que vienen aquí andan en busca de recuerdos. Si quieren comprar auténticas antigüedades, lo menos que pueden hacer es adquirir algún conocimiento sobre el tema. Es responsabilidad de ellos.

One of the things she'd learnt on her own, ragged, bemused, zigzag way was that the best sources of useful information were often in strange places...

HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....

Their ignorance is so great they are terrified by a hint of the truth; a hint such as you are in yourself.

The soldier knew what had happened, and believed; he knew about nightmares. But he knew also that there were nightmares that happened when one was awake, which was a knowledge denied most of the quiet farm folk and city merchants present around him.

I am not strong enough, she said. She had never said this aloud to anyone before—anyone but her bees. I know too little, and I do not learn fast enough. And there are not enough hours in the day. And the land has been bent away from true too far and for too long.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it

Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't is a fool for a lifetime

The best antidote for fear is knowledge.

Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.

Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book.

Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.

If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you.

If you have not read today, you have not really lived today. And knowing how to read but failing to do so puts you in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.

Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.