Quotes About Knowledge

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.

Learning is less than a curse than a distraction.

Well, I would say that every time you buy a new blouse or some wrinkle cream to make you look good, go and buy a book right away. It's just as important to keep your mind beautiful, don't you think?

Always said a young boy needed to fill himself with knowledge and passion. Empty vessels get filled with the wrong things.

In order to understand something really and truly well, you must know where it came from. There is no other way to appreciate its value.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

The present is all you can truly know of any man, and even of that you can glimpse only a fragment, however long you remain in his company.

The old woman cocked her head on one side. 'You wouldn't let me starve.' 'Wouldn't I?' 'I could put a hex on you that you'd never undo,' the old woman raged. I could bring a cooked fish alive in your throat even as you swallow it to choke you to death. You still don't know the half of what I know, girl, and you never will. You don't have the skill or patience to master it. Haven't had to learn it to survive, not like me, and that's your trouble.

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.

Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photos—see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die.

He gives me a look that says, "Dude, if I knew that do you think I'd have enlisted your puny help?" I snicker. "Something funny here." "You. All prickly and pissed 'cause there's something you don't know. Got to call on the megaservices of the Mega." "Ever occur to you I'm using you for reasons your inferior human brain can't begin to understand.

I love books, they're in my blood.

He breaks off and looks at Ryodan. "I think we better show her. Telling her doesn't seem to be working. I thought you said she was smart." "I took Barrons's word for it." "Apparently he was misinformed," Dancer says.

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it." -Barrons

Any man who reads is a fine one.

The things I could teach her Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if she could survive them.

I know who the fuck you are," he clips the words out coldly. "You're the only one that doesn't. Dani could have anticipated the Hag's movements. You could not. Jada.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I resent being cued. It makes me not want to know.

I found it impossible to strive for a goal I couldn't fathom, to re-create a thing of which I'd no knowledge, like a blind man trying to paint a picture of sky and clouds and sun.

Sometimes I think everybody else in the world knows something I don't know. Like they're all in on some kind of conspiracy and if I just knew that one secret thing, too, the things adults do that baffle me would make perfect sense. Other times I think I know something extra that the whole rest of the world doesn't know and that's why nothing they do makes sense. 'Cause they don't know it and all their actions stem from flawed logic. Unlike mine.

You didn't warn me enough. I'm only fourteen! I don't know everything! I can't know everything! You're older! You're supposed to warn me about stuff!