Quotes About Knowledge

There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.

After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.

Listen', he said seriously, 'I'm not just wasting your time telling funny stories. You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars. And everyone knows there's only Australians there, right?

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks, she said coolly. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks,' she said coolly. 'People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Then I must be very wisdom. I don't understand anything.

Once an air squadron commander, he knew there were many things one could not control when engaged in battle, and that knowledge dictated an iron-willed insistence that what could be controlled must be brought to perfection.

have added something to knowledge and helped others to add more; and these somethings have a value that differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.

Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

What small whiz-kid luster I'd given off in grade school had gone to mist starting my sunglassed junior year. I knew some Shakespeare plays, and I'd read a couple great books till their spines split.

Wait until my wife sees this." He chortled. "She's said all along that we should just get rid of the darned cupboard doors. She even showed me a picture in one of her magazines, but I told her she was crazy. Just shows you how much I know." He

Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

But the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery, in which I am, truly, a Copernicus.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and that is the precognition of the spiritual side of the world and, within this recognition, the condition of my own spiritual state.

Education as I knew it was made up of such a preestablished collection of certainties. Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information, where he offers graciously his deep findings. While the man who has only questions to comfort himself makes music.

Whatever you know about here it doesn't tell you

Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned.

As though they have been told everything already, and are content.

You are young. So you know everything.