Quotes About Knowledge

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

In high school the priests had cautioned us against the danger of books. "The wrong ones will warp your mind more than it already is, Marzek". I tried to find out what the wrong ones were so that I could read them. I had already developed my basic principle of Catholic education-The Double Reverse: (1) suspect what they teach you, (2) study what they condemn

Cowardice, like courage, is contagious, and to be surrounded by cowards is to feel comforted in the knowledge that not only are there others like you but there is probably someone worse.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

What constitutes a rational decision depends upon one's knowledge. There is a rider to this. If one has reason to believe one's knowledge is insufficient, then it is rational, particularly in the case of important decisions, to seek out more evidence: unfortunately, as we will see, when people do so, they usually act in a wholly irrational way, since they only seek evidence that will support their existing beliefs.

The car may have known the way, but Teddy had no idea where he was going.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

I'm smart 1 day out of 30, but I never know which day it will be so I have to sit patiently, feeling like an ignoramus most of the time.

It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear.

Era una suerte que la muerte no le hubiese arrebatado la sabiduría del anciano.

her. "How do you always know that stuff?" she asked. "Are you kidding? Everyone knows that stuff." He went back to the kitchen to start cleaning up. Meri crossed to the lilies. Bending over them

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac .

Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.

For years I'd written down my dreams, believing, as I still do, that one of the purest sources of knowledge about our lives comes from the symbols and images deep within.

Is the library all you hoped?" "It's a holy of holies," I said. And it was, but I could feel the tiny lump of anger tucked beneath my awe. A half million scrolls and codices were within these walls, and all but a handful were by men. They had written the known world.

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't

A half million scrolls and codices were within these walls, and all but a handful were by men. They had written the known world.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

Mengetahui bisa menjadi kutukan dalam hidup seseorang..begitu kau mengetahui yang sebenarnya, kau tidak akan pernah kembali untuk mengambil koper kebohonganmu. Lebih berat atau tidak, kebenaran menjadi milikmu sekarang.