Quotes About Knowledge

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Life is the best teacher.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.