Quotes About Knowledge

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

History is the teacher of life

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.