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Knowledge Quotes
"I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America."
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"It is easy to be wise after the event."
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"If you want the answer-ask the question."
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"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
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"Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!"
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"Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful."
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"Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated."
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"I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with - which, unfortunately, is rarely the case-tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And--most important-nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker."
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"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
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"Knowledge is very vital in life`s transformation and transition."
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"A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place."
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"In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library."
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"Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
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"Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition."
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"Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance."
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"Information is not knowledge."
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"The more I learn, the more doors of information and opportunity are open to me."
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"The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours', isn't it?"
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"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
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"The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?"
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"I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory."
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"Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."
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"Study whatever you were told very carefully. Make the best choices for the best brands and discard the rest."
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"But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other."
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"Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery-the frontier that drives the economies of the future-would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before."
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"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
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"A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality."
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"Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction."
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"We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries."
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