Quotes About Knowledge

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Your whole life informs your eye.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.