Quotes About Knowledge

The most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

Did you know that even then, with computers and libraries and all kinds of reminders, we found it easy to forget where we came from? Maybe because we had machines to do the remembering for us, we felt we could simply leave it to them.

Meiner Erfahrung nach werden die meisten Probleme im Leben dadurch verursacht, dass entscheidende Informationen fehlen. Viele Leute wissen eben nicht das, was sie wissen müssen. Einige ignorieren die Wahrheit, andere verstehen sie ganz einfach nicht.

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.

it had never occurred to her that having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

Jasnah was different. She gave Shallan a topic and the freedom to pursue it as she wished. Jasnah offered encouragement and speculation, but nearly all of their conversations turned to topics like the true nature of scholarship, the purpose of studying, the beauty of knowledge and its application.

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

You don't know what you're saying," Ua'pam said. "And that might just be why Maya and I are able to do things you think impossible.

Each time she appears, she narrows that down for us. Since she can only make projections five miles away from wherever her base is, each time she does appear, we learn more about where she might be." I nodded slowly. "Like a catapult that shoots enormous grapes.

Is it such a shameful thing, he thought, to be the man who likes to provide information for others, rather than be the one who has to use that information?

It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don't know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it.

To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.

He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So

It was a brutal truth. The best truths, however, were simple.

I'm mysterious," Kaladin said. "I used to think you were. Then I found out you don't like good puns—it's truly possible to know too much about somebody.

I cannot know truth, so I follow one who does.

He always watched and studied. He was a king—and you could not properly dominate that which you did not understand.

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

No podemos dar por sentado que solo porque algo sea antiguo vaya a ser cierto.

She fell because she was looking through the library's nonfriction section.) We

I didn't know there were so many books in the world," Syl said. "Won't they use up all the words? Seems like eventually you'd say everything that could be said!

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret.

And now here he was. At the end of it all. Understanding so much more, but somehow feeling no wiser.