Quotes About Knowledge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

Good writers are good readers.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

To found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing. Many a person can see a thing and believe a thing and know just as little about it as the person who does neither.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

You are never so certain as when you don't know just how wrong you can be

Having gray hair doesn't matter but having gray matter matters.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture - blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only knew the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it?

I believe that it is better to know one book intimately that a hundred superficially

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially." ? Donna Tartt, The Secret History

What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture—blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only knew the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it? You don't know what Dionysus looks like. We're talking about God here. God is serious business.

I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond

It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.

I knew then, and know now, virtually nothing

And as much as I'd like to believe there's a truth beyond illusion, I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond illusion.

It does not to do be frightened of things about which you know nothing,' he said. 'You are like children. Afraid of the dark.