Quotes About Knowledge

I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.