Knowledge Quotes

"There is a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something" "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." "The more you teach the less you have to instruct" "The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom" "We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom" "Wisdom is only found in truth" "Change is the end result of all true learning" "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." "The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education " "The more I learn about the universe, the more I learn about how much I don't know" "Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some previously unrecognized frontier, we become more completely human" "Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known" "Books break the shackles of time proof that humans can work magic" "He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion." "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" "People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them"