Quotes About Knowledge

Sometimes it is easier to make a decision if you aren't burdened with the knowledge of history.

Michael often said that information was the coin of power, and that it was not a coin to be spent frivolously.

it's no help to be ignorant of the truth....

Few people understood the weapon that was a properly fashioned twist of information.

No matter how much you know, there will always be more; no one knows everything.

much the same as you men are strong and can wield a heavy battle-axe, whereas an old man could not. Even though you have the muscle to do this, that doesn't mean that your muscles can do what they aren't meant to do, such as exercise wisdom the old man has from his experience. He may defeat you in battle through his knowledge, rather than his muscle.

The Wizard's Second Rule? What is that? Is it in the archives? Any student of magical lore should know it. The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. ...

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Albert grunted. Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions? Mort thought for a moment. No, he said eventually, what? There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Most witches don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don't believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

But we're a university! We have to have a library! said Ridcully. It adds tone . What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library? Students, said Senior Wrangler morosely.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.