Quotes about Knowledge
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
- Albert Einstein
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
- Bill Gates
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
- Ronald Reagan
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
- Denzel Washington
You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.
- Alice Hoffman
He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.
- Alice Hoffman
First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.
- Alice Hoffman
She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.
- Alice Hoffman
A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.
- Alice Hoffman
Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness.
- Alice Hoffman
There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.
- Alice Walker
each of us has knowledge of how to live life differently that no one taught us, and that we can find this knowledge inside ourselves and put it to use.
- Alice Walker