Quotes About Knowledge

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

Inaccessibility Theorem: THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU WANT. THE INFORMATION YOU WANT IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. THE INFORMATION YOU NEED IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU CAN OBTAIN. Rule

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toilO'er books consumed the midnight oil?

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't...

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

You could drink the truth in its purity if you went to the source

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Have you really read all those books in your room?" Alaska laughing- Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

Health that mocks the doctor's rules,Knowledge never learned of schools.

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

Learning that flowered in days of yore In these our times is thought a bore. Once knowledge was a well to drink of; Now having fun is all men think of.

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

History has a beginning in sources, but also in the gaps within and between sources.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

Habit, routine, our daily humdrum apathy and indifference, this is the shield we put between us and reality, the shield with which we protect ourselves from life while we are engaged in the business of living. It is the function of the arts to pierce that shield, to re-awaken in us a forgotten knowledge.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Convergence assumes that scientific discoveries matter to faith.

Love of wisdom [philosophy] the guide of life.