Quotes About Knowledge

The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

The first step of wisdom is to question everything.

For instance, we lose points for wrong answers on tests in school.

Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.—UNKNOWN

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole...We are sorely deficient in wisdom, lacking a view of how all these pieces of knowledge connect to make the world a better place.

But knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole.

Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

The book you don't read cant help.

The book you don't read won't help.

The more you know, the less you need to say.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head—by reading.