Quotes About Knowledge

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.