Quotes About Knowledge

There is, all about us, ancient knowledge - that cannot be denied. Yet Kruppe wonders, are there memories? True memories? Of enlivened flesh and the wind's caress, of the laughter of children? Memories of love? When frozen between life and death, in the glacial in-between, what can exist of mortal feeling? Not even an echo. Only memories of ice, of ice and no more than that.

No doubt there's a tale there.' 'Indeed, but it's not relevant.' 'Meaning you don't know it.' 'Precisely.

The laws are not what they seem. Order is an illusion. It hides its lies in your very eyes, deceiving all they see. Because to see is to change that which is seen. No, none of us will ever see true. We cannot. It is impossible. I give you a life without answers, my children.

To know and to understand that we must all die, Trull Sengar, is not to worship death. To know and to understand is itself magic, for it made us stand tall.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free.

One conversation, here on the surface, yet another beneath. The priest and the mage are playing games, the entwining of suspicion with knowledge. Heboric sees a pattern, his plundering of ghostly lives gave him what he needed, and I think he's telling Kulp that the mage himself is closer to that pattern than he might imagine. "Here, wielder of Meanas, take my invisible hand…" Felisin

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free. Only, because your eyes are wide open, you see right away that you can't float in what you're in. You can only sink. That's why the meanest religions work so hard at keeping their followers ignorant. Knowledge is poison. Wisdom is depthless. Staying ignorant keeps you in the shallows.

The Claw smiled. "You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin—it pays to hoard.

We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured.

Only fools think the past is invisible

It's a poor scholar who trusts anyone's judgement. Even and perhaps especially his own.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant. No, is my answer.

Knowledge was no blessing; awareness was a disease that stained the entire spirit.

Ich möchte immer noch mehr über diese alten Frauen wissen, die Welten wie diese hier träumen.

A Book of Prophecy opens the door. You need a second book to close it.

Bravado usually is ignorance,' Bottle snapped back.

Everything was about not-knowing, the whole future, and who could even make sense enough of the past to think they really knew everything and so, knowing everything, know everything to come?

Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin—it pays to hoard.

am. Tehol possesses what Hull does not. 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. That's what Tehol has. Hull, Errant protect him, does not.

Quick Ben. You snake-eyed shifty know-it-all bastard from the bung-hole of Seven Cities. I never liked you. Never trusted you, even when I had to. The things you know about, why I—

Poets may know hunger,' she commented drily, 'but historians devour. And devouring murders language, makes of it a dead thing.

People need to know where they came from, Sand. Especially if they've lived generations not knowing.

History comforts the dull-witted

Mammot's face crinkled into a wise smile.