Quotes about Knowledge

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.