Quotes About Knowledge

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Life without learning is death.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.