Quotes About Knowledge

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

You are of course fully in control of what you choose to read

So few people understand about anything.

knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge.

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

It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.

Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier.

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark

I decided she was naive. I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

He has something we don't have, he has the word.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted.

Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.

Eu gostaria de não ter vergonha. Gostaria de ser sem vergonha. Gostaria de ser ignorante. Então eu não saberia o quanto era ignorante.

How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret?