Quotes About Knowledge

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.