Knowledge Quotes

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.