Quotes About Knowledge

It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.

But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.

Tal vez tú y yo tenemos que aprender a vivir con lo que vimos. Con lo que sabemos.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

But when I think Oh William!, don't I mean Oh Lucy! too? Don't I mean Oh Everyone, Oh dear Everybody in this whole wide world, we do not know anybody, not even ourselves! — Except a little tiny, tiny bit we do. — But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean. — This may be the only thing in the world I know to be true.

How did you ever know? You never knew anything, and anyone who thought they knew anything - well, they were in for a great big surprise.

Everyone thinks they know everything, and no one knows a damn thing.

People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

I know faintly, even now, that I have embarrassed myself, and it always comes back to the feeling of childhood, that huge pieces of knowledge about the world were missing that can never be replaced.

but it was the doctor's body, the sudden way he moved the folders on his desk, the way he moved back from Harmon, that Harmon would always remember. As though he had known what Harmon didn't know, that lives get knit together like bones, and fractures might not heal.

it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

after school and discovered Julie LaGuinn standing at the blackboard.

don't know if I believe it or not." I paused. "I don't really know anything." I added, "Except how much I love you and Becka. I know that.

I said on the phone to my mother, "I think I'm going to write the story of the Burgess kids." "It's a good one," she agreed. "People will say it's not nice to write about people I know." My mother was tired that night. She yawned. "Well, you don't know them," she said. "Nobody ever knows anyone.

Don't I mean Oh Everyone, Oh dear Everybody in this whole wide world, we do not know anybody, not even ourselves! — Except a little tiny, tiny bit we do. — But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean. — This may be the only thing in the world I know to be true.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Generally, pharmacists know a lot more about drugs than doctors do.

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher's 'freedom to print'; it is, rather, the citizen's 'right to know.