Quotes About Knowledge

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small flat rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world worlds that sing to you comfort and quiet or excite you." — Anne Lamott

I read more than other kids; I luxuriated in books. Books were my refuge.

You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world.

when people don't have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.

A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.

Exchange information, learn to talk sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.

La experiencia real es el conocimiento

What I know I wish I didn't. What I'd give anything to know, I have to wait and see.

La propia ignorancia sigue creciendo precisamente al mismo ritmo que la propia experiencia.

You deliberately don't ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.

You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.

That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.

A veces la ignorancia es una especie de salvaguarda.

What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating

But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She

What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.

Dr. Eve came into the room like a roll of distant thunder, just enough to send a chill of warning down the spine, with the knowledge of a storm to come.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions