Quotes About Knowledge

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. 'We're like coyotes,' he said. 'Get to a good place, turn around three times in the grass, and you're home. Once you know how, you can always do that, no matter what. You won't forget.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin

You don't ask questions of an attic

We can´t know what we haven´t been taught

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.

The final stages of grief. Dellarobia felt an entirely new form of panic as she watched her son love nature so expectantly, wondering if he might be racing toward a future like some complicated sand castle that was crumbling under the tide. She didn't know how scientists bore such knowledge. People had to manage terrible truths.

was after they discovered the world was round. I'm not scared of big words." "I didn't say you were." "You did, too! 'I realize you're no scientist, Miss Rawley

Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?

Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend.

Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.

But the weirdness wasn't in what I didn't know. It's what I did know.

But you don't ask questions of an attic. Museums are their own justification.

Scientific laws are not the property of a man. They exist outside of us.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

What is new is that we now know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time.

She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.