Quotes About Knowledge

La connaissance poetique nait dans la grand silence de la connaissance scientifique

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Where we once had fear we now have courage, because we have been given knowledge.

As long as we Believe in Myth, we can never Realize the Truth.

People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.

The Internet is where stupid goes to find stupider so it doesn't have to feel so stupid.

Wisdom is not learning but seeing clearly what can never be taught.

Each of us can know only a part of the whole that constitutes truth.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

With my head crammed full of art, literature, theater, music and film knowledge, I continued to wander, vainly looking for a place to make use of it.

A movie director is like a front-line commanding officer. He needs a thorough knowledge of every branch of the service, and if he doesn't command each division, he cannot command the whole.

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.

Here we seem to have arrived at the terminus of Buddhist cosmology as a practical philosophy. It is a point all ancient views of the universe have finally reached. As knowledge is disseminated in ever-greater amounts, people have sought out the rational and overturned old dogmas.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

The more I learn, the less I know: the less I know, the less I understand: the less I understand, the less I can relate; I know you're crazy.

We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.

You'll never be alone if you've got a book.

The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

I get sad every time I hear a person say "I don't read." It's like saying "I don't learn," or "I don't laugh," or "I don't live.