Quotes About Knowledge

You have learned much, Karsa Orlong." "I have, T'lan Imass. As you shall witness.

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets

The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

I've been a stargazer for quite a long time, I've got the apps, I know where a lot of things are in the sky and the apps actually can help just to point out what you are looking at because then you do get to see, 'Oh that's Saturn, that's Mars.'

My mom is the all-seeing eye in the sky. And she definitely doesn't lie. She knows exactly what I'm doing right or wrong, because she taught me everything I know.

How can someone who has never been slapped in the face talk about the greatest fighter of all times?

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

I think I'm ever so slightly behind myself and I don't know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

I read a lot and some of the things I read are blaxploitation books, things by Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim. The books are filled with a lot of street knowledge; they really recall an era.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

I cannot drive very well. I drive slow and very safe. I don't know cars that well.