Quotes About Knowledge

Travel, though it broadens the mind, narrows the life expectancy.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

I see everything.

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

Mind your discipline to read, read to discipline your mind.

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.

The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

You'll be shot, they cautioned. No. I won't be shot. I'm going to shoot them, and then I'll go home. I'll be perfectly safe. I can see the future, and the clouds are lifting. You can see the future? How can you see the future? I know enough now about the patterns of the past to see the darkness of the future unraveling before the golden light of time. Behind the clouds is the dawn. How can I possibly know such things? The fact is, I do. So watch out.

Connoisseurs of paintings were curiously indifferent about color itself, and were seldom possessed by it. Rather, they possessed it. And they seemed to be easily seated. They were like the gourmets, who had to build castles of their food before they could eat it. They confused beauty and knowledge, passion and expertise.

Zrobimy to, co zawsze robiÄ™ w takich sytuacjach, co robiÅ'em ju? sto razy, co automatycznie robi ka?dy, kto naprawdÄ™ zna góry. – To znaczy? – KatapultÄ™.

Mark Kurlansky

Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.

the dissemination of information alone does not set people free, and a new information technology creates a new ruling class.

An unread book is a world unexplored

When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow.