Knowledge Quote by Gerald Durrell

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest…

— Dale Carnegie

“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents…

— Haruki Murakami

“For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts…

— René Descartes

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important…

— Hermann Hesse

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt”

— George Ilian

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”

— Tryon Edwards

“A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be…

— Daniel Keyes

“The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none…

— Tonny K. Brown

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London