Quotes about Knowledge

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

But all I know — the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself — these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

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.