Quotes About Knowledge

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein

In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.

As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that ain't so. —Will Rogers or Mark Twain or someone else

True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown. The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that. Today

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

The best place to find things: the public library.

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!

Man cannot contradict the Laws of Nature. But are all the laws of Nature yet discovered?

Alas! there is no fool like him who wishes for knowledge! It is only through woe that we are taught to reflect, and we gather the honey of worldly wisdom, not from flowers, but thorns.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all'ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

Après quatre mois d'emprisonnement, j'en sais plus sur la justice qu'après deux années d'université.