Quotes About Knowledge

She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...' 'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?' 'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.

Do you know this part of the world well?

She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. There was something in that looks that startled me - though it was difficult to describe why. There was malice in it, and a curious intimate knowledge. I felt that, without effort, and almost without curiosity, she had known exactly what thoughts were in my mind.

W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why. J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous. ~Wharton; Jessop

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.

You seem to know a hell of a lot about everything, you little foreign cock duck.

A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.

One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said. "Why not? They ought to." I agreed.

A woman would know all right about her own husband.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.

Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge—my experience—that tells me that something about that letter is wrong—

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

the more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives!

In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

Really, I have no gifts—no gifts at all—except perhaps a certain knowledge of human nature. People, I find, are apt to be far too trustful. I'm afraid that I have a tendency always to believe the worst. Not a nice trait. But so often justified by subsequent events.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.