Quotes About Knowledge

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

For hours after Andrew had died on his way into life, she felt powerfully that he had come from unreachable realms with knowledge she needed urgently to learn. Yet there he lay, swaddled in her arms, looking entirely at peace and not at all like a failed emissary. His face was closed; she could read nothing in his blank, perfect features except her own loss. She had given birth to death, and she felt its claim on her. She held Andrew until he was cold and his chill entered her body and heart.

If knowledge is power, power is also knowledge, and a large factor in their subordinate position is the fairly systematic ignorance patriarchy imposes upon women.

The international regime of intellectual property rights has significantly shaped the control and distribution of knowledge for hundreds of years. It's a story that began innocently enough in the fifteenth century, when Venice started awarding its famed glass-blowers 10-year patents to protect their novel creations from imitators. Show us how you made it, promised the law, and no one is permitted to copy you for a decade.

Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE) movement. Its worldwide network of innovators, designers and activists aims to follow in the footsteps of open-source software by creating the knowledge commons needed to unleash the full potential of circular manufacturing.

Instead of focusing primarily on redistributing income earned, they will aim to redistribute wealth too—especially the wealth that comes from controlling land, money creation, enterprise, technology and knowledge. And instead of focusing on market and state solutions alone, they will also harness the power of the commons. It's a fundamental shift in perspective, and it is well under way.

Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing?

Trust your gut but teach it first. Your gut is directing you based on what it knows, so be sure it's well informed about what matters. Experts who swear they make gut decisions often have years of training, and

Let's leave it for tonight. Is it a decent hour for two middle-aged people to go to bed?' He held out his hand for her. Half an hour later he exclaimed, 'My God, where did you learn that?' 'I read a book once,' she answered. 'Thank God for literate women,' he said fervently.

It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.

she was seven. The Yorks' emphasis on a light education was shortsighted. The

I hope I'm always learning something.

I've always believed in the Nero Wolfe theory of knowledge. You can just sit quietly in your room - according to Pascal, the activity that if practiced more assiduously would free humanity from most of its troubles, but that was before e-mail - and through sheer mental effort force the tiniest snippets of information to yield the entire story of which they are a fragment, because the whole truth is contained in every particle of it, the way every human cell contains our DNA.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

When you know better, it's easier to do better" George Chryst

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.

But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.

Aristotle said to Alexander, that a mind well furnished was more beautiful than a body richly arrayed. What can be more odious to man, and offensive to God, than ignorance. Reginald Scott, A Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1654