Quotes About Knowledge

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we're surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, "Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equator?" I'd be in a fix. Hell, I don't even know why Wednesday follows Tuesday. I'd be an intergalactic joke

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness? I wouldn't know, I said. Nor would we, said the scientists.

Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn't understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.

You know what I should do? Hoshino asked excited. Of course, the cat said. What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

Pero el principio de que el saber está por encima de la ignorancia en cualquier situación constituía la base de su manera de pensar y su postura ante la vida. Por muy doloroso que resultase, debía saberlo. Porque sólo el saber fortalece a las personas.

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.