Quotes about Knowledge

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. 'We're like coyotes,' he said. 'Get to a good place, turn around three times in the grass, and you're home. Once you know how, you can always do that, no matter what. You won't forget.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we're talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.