Quotes about Knowledge
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
- Cormac McCarthy
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
- Samuel Johnson
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
- Thomas a Kempis
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.
- Moby
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
- Mark Twain
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
- Mark Twain
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
- Mark Twain
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
- Mark Twain
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
- Mark Twain
One lives to find out.
- Mark Twain
Don't let school interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain