Knowledge quotes
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
A thought is an idea in transit.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Dare to think for yourself.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
I am a part of everything that I have read.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
I cannot live without books.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Industrialize or perish.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Investigate, educate and organize.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Know what you are talking about.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
My weapon is literature
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The knowledge of all things is possible
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
When you know better you do better.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.