Quotes About Knowledge

I'm afraid it's not the knowledge that makes me hit wrong notes, it's the level of skill," she managed to say sweetly, pulling herself together. "People say I play with great abandon." "Yes. Abandoned to all sense of musicality.

He'd taken unfair advantage—he knew far more about women's bodies than she did, even though she lived in one.

This was when I was still very young, of course. Back then I thought I understood nearly everything.

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

However different the two might be in other ways, they both had this notion that reading up on something, getting equipped for something, would put them in control.

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than they can process effectively. Giving them even more facts adds to the wrong pile. They don't need more facts. They need help finding their wisdom. Contrary to popular belief, bad decisions are rarely made because people don't have all the facts.

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me?

He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful; it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

What you see in an eclipse is entirely different from what you know. It is especially different for those of us whose grasp of astronomy is so frail that, given a flashlight, a grapefruit, two oranges, and fifteen years, we still could not figure out which way to set the clocks for Daylight Saving Time.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.

Maybe that was the point of truth--you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. •

Yeah, I can read, he said. Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?

Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima

Yeah, well. They're more like 'Keep Out' signs, or 'Keep In,' I guess—as in keeping you guys in your place. The world goes on for a whole lot farther, trust me. This is just a trick to keep you from knowing it.

The wisdom of the crowd, Aya. If a million people look at a puzzle, chances are that one of them knows the answer. Or maybe ten people each know one piece, and that's enough to put it all together.

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.