Quotes About Knowledge

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.