Quotes About Knowledge

The danger in ingenious hardware is that it distracts attention from education. What good is a wonderful machine if you don't know what to put on it?

You don't bother to memorise the literature—you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

There is no barrier so strong as that of ignorance.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

Supposing you knew -- not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition -- that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real -- as real to the mind.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man.

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.

Ist doch mal wieder typisch dafür, wie es auf der Welt zugeht: Die Leute, die Bücher lieben, können sie sich nicht leisten, während die Leute, die genügend Geld haben, Betriebswirtschaft studieren, damit sie noch mehr Geld einsacken und dafür sorgen können, dass die Buchleser auch in Zukunft machtlos bleiben. Dem armen Volk bleibt nur die öffentliche Bibliothek.

What we were after there, in the horn and vellum

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

John C. Polkinghorne

Is ignorance so hard to bear, then? There is so very much in life we do not know … .

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.