Quotes About Knowledge

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.

Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers. A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.

None the less, you have my leave, if only that you might ensure your spies are made aware of precisely when her spies make their report, so that they in turn may report to you and you may then report to me. Although what I am to do with such knowledge will no doubt escape me, given that the event initiating these flurries of reporting is none other than the one occurring right now in this room.

Histories, they're just what's survived. But they're not the whole story, because the whole story can never be known. Think of all the histories we've gone and lost. Not just kingdoms and empires, but the histories inside every one of us, every person who ever lived.

A book of prophesy opens the doors. You need a second book to close it. Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers.

Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin—it pays to hoard." "Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.