Quotes About Knowledge

What is one to make of the tirades of those who appear to know little of politics beyond their own invaluable right to publish their stuff and say what they think?

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid, they believe what they want to believe.

People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

This was why he couldn't let Richard know it was the chimes themselves that were loose. Richard would not have accepted what Zedd intended, what Zedd knew he must do.

Your destiny is to find the truth.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

Information is the coin of war.

The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. Books could almost be immortal.

Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .