Quotes About Knowledge

People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.

Think of it as therapy, he encouraged. A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll show you how to live.

Why is it so important that you know right now who he is? If he lives, you can ask him. If he dies—" She halted abruptly.

But the truth might as well not exist to those who refuse to believe it.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

It is no less astonishing how many subjects—historical, philological, biological, sociological, economic—people regard as politics

There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.

As a matter of fact, He doesn't do things—He embodies them. We live; He is life. We love; He is love. We think; He is knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. We dream; He is the fulfillment of every dream, even ones we are not yet capable of conceiving.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

I guess. There were over a hundred and fifty kids in our class, so we definitely knew more than just each other.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.