“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
Knowledge is power, but only if you do something with it. These quotes explore learning, expertise, wisdom, ignorance, and the lifelong project of trying to understand a world that keeps changing faster than you can study it.
“The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
“All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.”
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”
“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.”
“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”