Quotes About Knowledge

Reputations are often undeserved,' said Moncharmin. 'I have the reputation of knowing all about music, but I don't the difference between the treble clef and the bass clef.' 'Don't worry, you've never had that reputation,' Richard assured him.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened? Exactly. No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration? You never went to college, did you?

Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough and Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. "Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect.

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.

We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.

It had become the face of a scholar of the worst kind, of the sort of man who has studied many things hidden from common men and grown wise and corrupt. He

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin

Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the place you come from?

You claim the right to prosecute me in accordance with your laws, the laws of Dorp, about which I know nothing. I claim the right to defend myself by the only law I know, the law of reason. Reason demands an impartial judge, and that I be given the advice of someone who knows your law.

He who had given all books into my keeping made me blind so that I should know in whose keeping the keepers stand.

For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense stature in some unremunerated field, the strategy and theory of some sport or the practice of some craft, have had an exhaustive knowledge of old circus posters or eighteenth-century inn signs or the mathematics of comets; and nothing so distinguished Professor Peacock from the ruck of men as his air of amateurishness.

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.

all the things people have said were The Secret after they had talked to mystagogues on far worlds or studied the popul vuh of the magicians, or fasted in the trunks of holy trees.

Surely the Pancreator knows all mysteries. He spoke the long word that is our Universe and few things happen that are not part of that word.

Flechas tengo para el corazón del sabio, Guiadas por la naturaleza infalible hasta el blanco, Pero cuando tiendo mi arco ante la multitud de la llanura, Los ignorantes sólo oyen al viento y a él todo lo atribuyen".