Quotes About Knowledge

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.