Quotes about Knowledge

We grow in our knowledge of God in the same way. We bring the reality of God into our lives by making contact with him through our minds, and our actions are based on the understanding that results from the fullness of that contact. There is nothing mysterious here. This is why the mind, and what we turn our minds to, is the key to our lives.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is the mind of an old man or an old woman who knows it.