Quotes About Knowledge

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown