Jules Verne Quotes

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I know a little about a lot of things. But I don't know a lot about everything.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

You want to know a little about a lot.

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

Education should be as broad as man.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.