Quotes About Knowledge

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ' he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Aren't there any, dear?' 'No,' said Fuchsia. 'Why aren't there?' Fuchsia realized that Mrs Slagg knew virtually nothing, but the long custom of asking her questions was a hard one to break down. This realization that grown-ups did not necessarily know any more than children was something against which she had fought.

Titus watched Keda's face with his violet eyes, his grotesque little features modified by the dull light at the corner of the passage. There was the history of man in his face. A fragment from the enormous rock of mankind. A leaf from the forest of man's passion and man's knowledge and man's pain. That was the ancientness of Titus.

sharing information was the key to survival.

Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

Bird of Wide Experience I

For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question.

But what if he's lost?" my grandmother said for the thousandth or millionth time. "He isn't lost," Uncle Ray said, issuing the finding that ultimately prevailed in the family Talmud. "He knows where he is.

Midwives' experience of fathers is incidental but proficient, like a farmer's knowledge of bird migration or the behavior of clouds.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them.

Through studying the past we learn our future.

When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.

Bosch turned off the screen and sat there thinking about how the truth was always manipulated by those in power. It bothered him to know things that shouldn't be kept secret.

messenger boy here. He wasn't supposed to find out

Michael Connelly

can give you whatever science