Knowledge Quotes

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

There's no such thing in aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

The limit of man's knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

Knowledge inspires courage. I'm not sceptical but I'd sooner know than believe.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.