Quotes About Knowledge

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey: The sages who have compassed sea and land, Their secret to search out and understand, My mind misgives me if they ever solve The scheme on which the universe is planned.

Apprendre tout au long de sa vie, c'est développer pleinement la sagesse qui vient normalement avec l'âge.

Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big ones.For I tell you, that secrets are not kept by being secretive;

There be many gurus, and some good ones whom it is no great task to differentiate, seeing that those who make the loudest claim are least entitled to respect. They who are the true guides into Knowledge know that nothing can be taught, although the learner easily can be assisted to discover what is in himself. Other than which there is no knowledge of importance, except this: that what is in himself is everywhere.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.

Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time," Quinn said.

Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Briar: They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn. Rosethorn: All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.

New learning never hurt anybody.

That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.

Being all of thirteen, of course you should be omniscient

Well, no, but everyone says they do." Someday I must read this scholar Everyone, she thought as she bit her tongue to keep from giving a rude answer. He seems to have written so much—all of it wrong.

Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you've changed.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone

And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.