Quotes about Knowledge

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.

No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.