Quotes About Knowledge

College education is highly overrated. Take it from a man who dispensed it.

there is no faculty so weak as the English faculty," which is "the common catch-all for aspirants to the birch who are too lazy or too feeble in intelligence to acquire any sort of exact knowledge, and the professional incompetence of its typical ornament is matched only by his hollow cocksureness." In a passing reference to Emory University he mentions "the students there incarcerated.

The book of Jubilees states that Enoch, the early patriarch, 'was the first one from among the children of men that are born on the Earth to learn writing and the knowledge of wisdom—and he wrote the signs of heaven'. These signs (from the Table of Destiny) are described as being the 'science of the Watchers', which had been carved in a rock in distant times, and Enoch

sapphire and inherited, at length, by King Solomon. The philosophical cipher of the Table become known as Ha Qabala (The QBL tradition of light and knowledge) and it was said that he who possessed Qabala also possessed Ram, the highest expression of cosmic knowingness.45

We often mistakenly assume that because someone has genuine understanding in one particular area, this mastery necessarily extends to all other areas of life. That may or may not be true.

that, when it comes to humanity, "the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains

But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

There was no way of really knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of really knowing anything.

I will give you intelligence, submitted the Creator, enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it. Done! said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.

Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

As far as I know, I'm the only Captain Yossarian I know, but that's only as far as I know.

Nincs mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk, ezt is tudta, sÅ't azt is, hogy még azt se tudhatjuk, valóban nincs-e mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk.

he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall?

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

He was someone in the know who was always striving pathetically to find out what was going on.

the historian must be part hedgehog and part fox; that is, he must know "one big thing" and several "little things," must pursue a unifying vision while remaining sensitive to the peculiarities and the bedeviling varieties of his subject.