Quotes About Knowledge

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child)

Well, all I know is this—nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.

The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Sometimes I have this feeling," Walter said, "that he operates on the philosophy that 'what Walter doesn't know won't hurt him.

My love of books is a love of what they contain; they hold knowledge as a pitcher holds water, as a dress contains the mystery of a woman's exquisite body. Their physicality matters—do not speak to me of storing books as bytes!

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn't open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you've looked. That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to know everything and those who don't. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

The trouble was, how could you know what question to ask? It seemed to her that you were in a position to ask a really correct question only if you already knew the answer, and what was the point of that?

Who was it said that the longer we live, the less we understand?

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically self-evident.

It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.

My name is Stuart, and I remember everything.

Still, I'm not curious enough to find out. At this stage I prefer not to know.

What happened to the truth is not recorded.

If I call myself an atheist at twenty, and an agnostic at fifty and sixty, it isn't because I have acquired more knowledge in the meantime: just more awareness of ignorance.

I had a friend who trained as a lawyer, then became disenchanted and never practiced. He told me that the one benefit of those wasted years was that he no longer feared either the law or lawyers.

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Know thy enemy… even thy dead enemy, for he may easily resuscitate.

That was another nice thing about my parents. There was none of that holding on to knowledge and power that some parents go in for. We were all adults together, on a plateau of equality.