Quotes About Knowledge

This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

Stephen Baxter

But most of them, as you may have insinuated, Gine, do nothing but rehash their education, look up the theories of their predecessors, and debate them afresh.

Honesty doesn't excuse ignorance. But it helps.

The details to be left as an exercise to the student.

As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn't worth a grain of good hard fact.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn't be much of a career path, would it?

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking 'why?' all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

She wanted her son to be smart enough to get out of this nightmare, but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one.

I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking "why?" all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.

The more you know, the sadder you get.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

I am no fan of books.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.

Experience, the wise man said, is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.

For me," he says, "the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." In a new poem, he wrote, he "meets himself coming home.

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.

Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books