Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Interpretation
Knowledge can be personal or sourced from others.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the two forms of knowledge: personal understanding of a subject and the awareness of where to seek information. It suggests that true knowledge isnβt just about what one knows directly but also includes recognizing the resources available for acquiring further understanding.
In practice
In a classroom setting when discussing the importance of utilizing libraries and online resources.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
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