Quotes About Knowledge

Only what do you know?

Maybe they pick it up at teacher school.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era . . . governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a god-like knowledge of every one of us. —Julian Assange

Do all the people who know me know me better than I know myself?

Barry Eisler

know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn't know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn't know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don't know it, it's good again.

I realized my knowledge of that potentially damning evidence gave Delilah a reason to want me out of the way. "Out of the way" might take a variety of different forms, of course, but none of them would be particularly attractive from my standpoint

For was it not true that when the student is ready, the teacher appears?

I know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn't know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn't know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don't know it, it's good again.

I ordered another Springbank. She asked me questions: how I knew so much about single malt whisky, where I lived in the States, how many times I'd been to Tokyo. She was comfortable in her role and I let her play it.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science

How do people imagine the landscapes they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imaginations of the people who dwell in it? How does desire itself, the desire to comprehend, shape knowledge?

Our first wisdom as a species, that unique metaphorical knowledge that distinguishes us, grew out of such an intimacy with the earth; and, however far we may have come since that time, it did not seem impossible to me that night to go back and find it. I wanted to enquire among these people, for what we now decide to do in the North has a certain frightening irrevocability about it.

is the case, I think, that it's what is decent, brilliant, and wise in a people that now we most need to know more about, and need to share with each other, not the banal evidence of their miscalculations or the supposed absence in them of the kind of sophistication we imagine ourselves to be in exclusive possession of.

the modern university is a kind of intellectual shopping mall.

The more difficult information gathering is, the more likely it is that you will rely on the decisions of others.

If people want real information, they have to go beyond advertising to disinterested sources such as Consumer Reports.

Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough.

There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.

All of these authors are trying to understand the world and their place in it, and all of them have valuable things to teach us. It is important to know what the words of these authors were, so that we can see what they had to say and judge, then, for ourselves what to think and how to live in light of those words.

pastors don't want to make waves; or they don't think their congregations are "ready" to hear what scholars are saying;

We knew about Gnostic forgeries for a long time before we actually had any of them.

The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.