Quotes About Knowledge

Her words cast a stone into the pool of my soul; the ripples they caused were fierce and shallow, but the knowledge itself sank deep into my spirit and lodged there in the dark, deep currents; immutable.

My deductions have not impressed you at all, which leads me to think that you knew everything already.

Now you have told me your story, I feel there's a reason behind everything that's happened to me. I don't know if I can make a difference to anything, but if people don't try, nothing will change. I'm eager to try. I want knowledge and strength. I want to go on from here one day and find the dark heart of Magravandias. I want to crush it." Taropat smiled. "I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.

The tasted keep their secrets.

The empress of Pharinet's tale was perhaps the kind of mother Varencienne would have liked to have had all along: a priestess, a sorcererss, with a forgotten book of secret knowledge. Her own fantasies could not have provided a more perfect history. Yet this Tatrini lived only in Pharinet's words. Varencienne would need proof for herself.

For all her slobbish behaviour, Lydia still had a mind in there somewhere, and she knew more about Tech-Green than she ever let on to Patti, Ari was sure.

Information nagged in the air around me, incomprehensible for now, but existent all the same. If only I could pluck it forth, give it form.

Show us the face of the oracle, he who must be ours.

Only your death can bring back the knowledge of the past. Your soul must be snuffed out like an exploding sun. Run away from it, Shemyaza. Disappear into the world. Become Peveral Othman again. It is what you really want. You're not a saviour, you never wanted to be. Others have shaped you in the image of their desires.

Most of the time he ignored her scorn because he realised she possessed far greater power and knowledge than he did, but occasionally her autocratic manner grated on his nerves.

Her power had fed the prince of light, and she had taught him her darkest secrets.

You took me from the crystal, the first gate to the source, and dragged me to into the abyss. You sought to eclipse all knowledge of light from my soul, so that I would become your dark god. But Sofia…" and here he paused with a smile. "Don't you understand that by showing me the dark of the Tree, you made me into the perfect avatar of the Shamir? The true king must have knowledge of both light and dark. You gave me this.

You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!

Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.

I know all! All! But Ays, my pretty smalling, can you pluck the knowledge from my breast, my brow? No! I cannot bestow such priveleges with abandon.

The scry mede is not a toy. It is a mirror of the universe, but it is also a portal. If you don't know what you're doing, you can let something through, even invite it in.

No one knows this land as well as I. Its secrets are my secrets. I can bend its elements to my will. You don't have to go to the serpent alone.

You are growing now, growing forth and your roots must spread until they touch the knowledge.

There is more truth in the old stories than you know.

I want this man and the things he might teach me.

Some wisdom can be learned only from the young. I know this, because I do constantly.

I want you, Daniel, to be with me. Taste the fatal apple; I have held it for eternity. It is humanity's curse, but if you want the knowledge, you can't avoid plucking the forbidden fruit.

If I owned a thousand books, thought Shan, I need never leave this house. Everything in the world could be see through the eyes of those who'd written the stories and histories, who'd lived them.

One thing Shan was wise enough to be aware of was that he had limited experience, simply because he was young.