Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Quiet people have the best minds.

Understanding is deeper than knowledge.

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

I have no greater pleasure than to have a problem to solve.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, one feels as if one is going in circles.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations, and multi-tasking.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Knowledge is dangerous. Seek it anyway.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

It is more important to out-think your enemy, than to outfight him.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I'm just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency.

Never memorize something that you can look up.