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Quotes About Knowledge

You are always a little bit wrong
~ Hank Green
People ask without wanting to know.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
~ Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
~ Bertrand Russell
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
~ John Milton
Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.
~ John S. Hall
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
~ Meister Eckhart
I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
~ Olympia Dukakis
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.
~ Rick Warren
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
~ Seneca the Younger
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
~ William Shakespeare
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
~ Will Rogers
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
~ William Faulkner
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
~ William Golding
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
~ William Hazlitt
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
~ William James
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
~ William Mountford
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
~ William Shatner