Quotes About Knowledge

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast of the mind.

You may have come on no bicycle, he said, but that does not say that you know everything.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

no one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Most things are beyond me, Block said. I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood

I write to discover what I know

What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.

Librarians are the last people you can trust about the inside of books.

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.