Quotes About Knowledge

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

In Plato's parable of the cave, our senses are privy only to a flattened, diminished version of the true, more richly textured, reality. Maldacena's flattened world is very different. Far from being diminished, it tells the full story. It's a profoundly different story from the one we're used to. But his flattened world may well be the primary narrator.

Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. —REBEC OF GINAZ

Secrets do not diminish when they are spread among many ears.

In a Trial by Forfeiture, the normal rules of evidence do not apply. There are no disclosure requirements that evidence be revealed to the opposition or to the magistrates prior to the court proceedings. This places the person with secret knowledge in a uniquely powerful position—commensurate with the extreme risk he takes.

We can learn much from those who came before us. The most valuable legacy our predecessors can leave us is the knowledge of how to avoid the same deadly mistakes.

The Baron had a monopoly on Arrakis—but it was also a monopoly based on ignorance. He gritted his teeth and knew

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.

When you listen to the voices of power, do not heed only the loudest. Those that whisper may yield greater knowledge. —Bene Gesserit training manual, Studies in Influence

Beliefs are more powerful than facts." Leto stared through the thick sky at the magnificent, distant ship and frowned. It was often difficult to separate truth from fiction.…

Norma said with great portent, "Ignorance is a powerful armor against the truth.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. —LETO ATREIDES II, the God Emperor

There are weapons you cannot hold in your hands. You can only hold them in your mind. -Bene Gesserit Teaching

La ciencia peca de arrogancia al creer que, cuanto más desarrollamos la tecnología y más aprendemos, mejor será nuestra vida.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Aye, you'll get t'the bottom of things, won't ye, sir!

Damn. How much time did you spend in the library? "I am a library.

Bro, all you've got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?

but anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.

Everything will be clear to you in time. But you must have a chance to digest the knowledge that we have given to you already.

For Brian McNaughton seems to have mastered one of the most difficult of literary arts: to draw upon the classics