Quotes About Knowledge

Age nunc, refer animum, sis, ad veritatem, [...].

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

Wenn du einen Garten und eine Bibliothek hast, wird Dir an nichts fehlen.

he grew old learning many a fresh lesson every day.

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

it is by no means surprising that though we are first commended to Wisdom by the primary natural instincts, afterwards Wisdom itself becomes dearer to us than are the instincts from which we came to her.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

We understand more than we know.

There is no fool like an educated fool...

The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.

Not real can tell us about real.