Quotes about Knowledge
You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both
— James Madison
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
— Stephen Hawking
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
— Anselm of Canterbury
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
— DH Lawrence
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
— Madeleine Albright
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.
— Frank Sinatra