Quotes About Knowledge

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and make jokes but it's just a cover for the fact that you're scared.

I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon ("Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long," wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with astounding confidence in The ABCs of the Cosmos [2003]), and yet mere human beings stayed so fuzzy, beyond all calculation?

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious assertion; there's little you can do when they tend to emerge from the womd predestined for Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

even though adults were tall, what we knew about anything, including ourselves, was small.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.

One must educate oneself

It is one thing to be told what God is like; it could be another thing altogether to discover the truth for ourselves!

History is not easy," Hue told me. "People are still confused why a huge force like the United States was defeated. But if you don't know your enemy, you will lose every time.

Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge.

to cultivate deep regional knowledge in the practice of foreign policy, and to avoid being led by ideology instead of understanding

The Internet promised a truly global egalitarian age. That was the idea, anyway. The international and unstructured nature of the thing was vital to these early Internet idealists. If knowledge is power, then power at long last would reside where it belonged, with the people, all people!

ISO, FIRST TO GO! LAST TO KNOW!

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling.

objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.

Anything is magic if you don't understand how it happens, and science if you do.

Colossians 1:10–14 and "walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. . . . He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.' Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace.