Quotes about Knowledge

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

There is no time of life past learning something.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.