Quotes About Knowledge

Untrue; but then, so is most information.

Money's educational. It's far more educational than the things it buys.

What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, ...

There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse

When proved wrong, he was particularly exasperating; he always managed to suggest that she needn't have bothered to prove it. The point she made was never the relevant point, her arguments conclusive but barren, she was reminded that he had expert knowledge and she none, and that experience would not help her because she could not interpret it.

Viu que Durham [Clive] não só era esperto como tinha também uma mente ordenada e tranquila. Sabia o que queria ler, onde estava mais fraco, e até aquilo em que os professores o podiam ajudar. Não tinha nem a fé cega nos tutores e nas aulas, como Maurice e o seu grupo, nem o desprezo professado por Fetherstonhaugh. -------------------------------------------------- p.42, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise you're in difficulties. Every teacher should have a fund of ready information on which to draw; he should keep that fund supplied regularly by new experiences, new thoughts and discoveries, by reading and moving around among people from whom he can acquire such things.

Is it conceivable that a man like Raffles, with his knowledge of the world, and his experience of women (a side of his character upon which I have purposely never touched, for it deserves another volume);

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less

The two biggest things you can do to change your future are the books you read and the people you associate with.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.