Quotes about Knowledge

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

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.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...

One lives to find out.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know; whereas the priest, like God, whose imitator and representative he is, has made it his business from the beginning to keep him from knowing any useful thing.

So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.