Quotes About Knowledge

But as much as I was a full-time doctor now, I'd been a doctor and a cop before. One does not become either of those things due to a congenital lack of curiosity.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

Trust my insider knowledge when I tell you that the only thing more frustrating than running out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran is being the shipmate of somebody who has run out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran.

It's so easy to be catastrophically wrong. And so difficult to admit it to yourself, internalize it, and act upon the knowledge.

Look down wells and look in the dark wet places. Look in forgetful places, and for forgotten things. Ask those that know the secrets whispered under earth and between stones.

How would she know, in the end, what was her desire and what was given her?

Benedick found irony in his knowledge that the symbiont Cynric herself had created-and inoculated into Benedick by her own hand-was the very thing that allowed Benedick to remember her murder so precisely.

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Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.

Good Goth girls knew these things. Good comparative religion grad students knew them, too.

Rim had kept secrets from the Core. The Core kept secrets from Rim: no surprises there. One of the stranger benefits of having once been someone else was that the someone she had been knew how much was concealed. And sometimes even had a general idea of what not to ask about in order to ensure everyone's comfort or continued peace of mind. Or, in this case, where exactly to shine the light.

Delicious. Delicious irony, that they should come back together at the end of the world. Again. And that the wolf should know all, and the boy knew nothing. As he means…nothing.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

He frowned at her now, studying her face-the sharp jaw and small nose, the high forehead over deep-set eyes, the architecture of pride and knowledge and competence that the sharpness of grief could not diminish.

We need each other, and we need literature, and we need knowledge-and we need very much, to try to be accountable for our own feelings and live up to our best selves. That reality might seem subjective and foolish to Farweather, but it seems objective and rational to me.

Niyara left you information you didn't know you had, and that's one reason we wanted you. But that's not the most important one.

Oh, little boy, when did you get so wise?

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

He had never been able to name things himself-he was, after all, in chief a sort of archivist-but as with many archivists, a good irony and a pun delighted him.

Sooner or later, in Jack's experience, a wampyr found out everything.

There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.

Thou wert always the teacher, wert thou not? The seducer with truths, the bestower of knowledge and power.

Oxford was always one to speak in riddles, enjoying teasing others with what he knew and what they didn't, and Kit had no stomach for it now.

It's not about how much you know. It's about what you consistently do. It's not about taking notes; it's about taking action.