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Quotes About Knowledge

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
~ Adora Svitak
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
~ Albert Einstein
Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.
~ Alyson Hannigan
There is no time of life past learning something.
~ Ambrose
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
~ Ann Patchett
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
~ Ardel Wray
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
~ Barbara Tuchman
If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you're not accomplishing very much.
~ Ben Casnocha
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
~ Bernhard Schlink
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
~ Bill Gosper
No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.
~ Buck Brannaman
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
~ Carl Jung
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
~ Carl Sagan
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
~ Carl Sandburg
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
~ Cesare Pavese
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
~ Clint Eastwood
Myself when young did eagerly frequentDoctor and Saint, and heard great argumentAbout it and about: but evermoreCame out by the same door wherein I went.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Human science is an uncertain guess.
~ Edward G. Prior
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
~ Edward Gibbon
My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
~ Edward Gibbon
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
~ Edward Gibbon