Quotes About Knowledge

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

That's one form of magic, of course. What, just knowing things? Knowing things that other people don't know.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

There's no point in believing in things that exist.

Granny sighed. You have learned something, she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

It's beautiful, said Mort softly. What is it? THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. Is it like this every night? EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. Doesn't anyone know? ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? Gosh! Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

But is all this true? said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. You mean you don't KNOW it's true? said Brutha. I THINK it might be, said Didactylos. I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.

The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.