James Gleick Quotes

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Knowledge is power.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.