Quotes About Knowledge

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

This life is a process of learning.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.