Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Knowledge is power.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.