knowledge quotes

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.