Quotes about Knowledge

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.

What good would it do me if truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognized her or not?

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

I still accept an imperative of knowledge, through which men may be influenced, but then it must come alive in me, and this is what I now recognize as the most important of all. This is what my soul thirsts for as the African deserts thirst for water. This is what I need to live, a completely human life and not merely one of knowledge

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.