Quotes About Knowledge

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view.

Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history. What was in that history? What sort of knowledge? Who had they been? What were they now? Why so much fucked-upness wherever you turned?

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The

Washington replied, "I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance." "He knows everything, sir," Morris replied. "To a mind like his nothing comes amiss.

I never undertake to instruct the man who asks me questions.

truth is so enveloped in mist and false representations that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it.

the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixons but between patriotism, & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other.

Is it possible that is not known?

He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

Ma niente è solido e duraturo. Le nostre vite si reggono su fondamenta instabili. Non è necessario leggere i libri di storia per scoprirlo. Ti basta conoscere la storia della tua vita.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

Tyndale once told a Catholic antagonist: "I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, before many years I will make sure that a boy who drives the plough knows more of the Scriptures than you do.

lo que está oculto es para nosotros los occidentales lo más verdadero que lo que es visible

learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience—to commit to memory—to come to know or be aware of. Obviously

Knowledge of a subject doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything with it. That would require skill. Likewise, a student can commit something to memory with no knowledge whatsoever. A grade-schooler, for example, might be able to recite the multiplication table perfectly, but still be unable to solve simple math problems. Coming to know something implies the goal of being able to use the knowledge, while being aware of facts or figures does not. Of

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Facts are stupid things.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Understanding requires a release from understanding.

Tienes cabeza, tienes conocimientos. Podrías vivir en vez de vegetar. —¿Y tú qué sabes de mi vida, androide? No importa lo que se tiene; lo jodido es lo que se añora.