Quotes About Knowledge

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

I read.. because one life is not enough

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.