Quotes About Knowledge

There were books involved.

Wasing the where of what

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere

Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

The skaa called Sazed holy, but at that moment he realized that he was the most profane of men. He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them.

I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.

If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.

Nedd," she said, "stupid is stupid." "No it's not. You're talking to an expert.

Unapplied knowledge benefited no one.

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

What you haven't realized before is that all libraries are far more dangerous than you've always assumed.

Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.

May you rule in wisdom.

There's always another secret.

It seems to me that now—suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything—is when we need knowledge the most.

having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

More wars are lost to lack of information than are lost to lack of courage.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

At each corner, you expect to turn and see the withered, skeletal remains of some poor researcher who got lost in the stacks and never found his way out.

How did you get to know people so well?" Teft asked. "It involves a lot of cutting them apart," Kaladin said.

Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many—us, people. The One, who is both male and female, did so to experience all things.

La verdad no podrá ser derrotada nunca, Sarene. Aunque la gente la olvide temporalmente. -Eventeo-